Commissioner urges the rich to fund poor pupils’ education
Primary school pupils
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The Lagos State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Ademorin Kuye, has called on wealthy Nigerians to contribute massively to the education of poor pupils.
Kuye said this when the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area in Lagos distributed free school uniforms to 8,000 pupils in the 10 public primary schools within the council area.
A statement from the council quoted Kuye, who was a special guest at the event, as saying the call became necessary because education remained a major tool to fight poverty, ignorance, disease and crime out of the country.
The commissioner also described the council’s gesture as a demonstration of high level of passion for education.
According to the statement signed by the Information Officer, Ejigbo LCDA, Mr. Rabiu Hassan, Kuye, the free uniform initiative was aimed at helping pupils whose parents could not afford to send their children to school.
“Some children have been sent away from school because of their parents inability to buy school uniform for them. The chairman of the council has done well with the free uniform project. It will take off burden from the poor parents,” he said.
Kuye advised the children to see the action of the council as part of their learning process.
To parents, Kuye said they had no excuse not to send their children to school, as both the state and local governments in the state had done enough to improve the standard of primary education.
Kuye also urged the council’s chairman Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, to pay attention to the welfare of primary school teachers, stating that there was need to train and equip them on information technology to enable them to perform better.
”Unless the teachers teach the pupils well, the uniform will amount to nothing,” he said.
The statement further quoted Bamigbetan as saying that the distribution of the uniform was the third phase of the exercise started by his administration in 2008, with 4,200 pupils as beneficiaries.
He added that 7,200 pupils benefited from the second phase of the project in 2011.
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March 1, 2013 by Sodiq Oyeleke
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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