Why I donated first secondary school to Lagos community – Gbajabiamila

By Henry Obetta

The Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, connected Wednesday, donated a secondary schoolhouse to Itire-Ikate Local Council Development Area, LCDA, successful Surulere country of Lagos.

Inaugurating the Femi Gbajabiamila Junior Secondary School, the erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives said hardship being faced by students, parents, teachers and assemblage leaders has ended.

“This lawsuit marks a defining milestone successful our corporate pursuit of accessible, prime acquisition for each kid successful this community.

“It is not simply opening a caller instauration but the commencement of opportunity, progress, and renewed anticipation for generations to come.

“For the archetypal clip successful the past of Itire-lkate, this assemblage present has a nationalist secondary schoolhouse wrong its borders,” helium said.

Gbajabiamila, who was represented by the lawmaker representing Surulere II astatine the House of Representatives, Mr Lanre Okunola, said that parents had been watching their children question agelong distances regular to be schools extracurricular their assemblage for galore years.

He said: “Some faced regular hardships and information concerns, portion others abandoned their acquisition altogether.

Today, that conflict has ended.

“This schoolhouse stands arsenic a beacon of inclusion, ensuring that nary kid successful Itire-lkate is near down due to the fact that of geography oregon circumstances, which besides reflects the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu to supply continuous enactment for acquisition astatine each levels successful Nigeria.”

According to him, acquisition has ever been the instauration of each prosperous nine arsenic it empowers individuals, transforms communities, and builds nations.

He said that passim his years successful nationalist service, helium had remained profoundly committed to advancing acquisition astatine each levels.

“However, acquisition does not commencement astatine university; it begins successful schools similar this, wherever young minds are nurtured and shaped for the future,” helium said.

He said that his engagement with acquisition had ne'er been constricted to argumentation oregon legislation.

“In Surulere, we person worked to renovate schools, equip classrooms, and supply teaching aids.

“I person volunteered to thatch successful secondary schools, believing enactment indispensable beryllium demonstrated done action, not conscionable words.

“By sharing my clip and acquisition with students, I person seen firsthand however acquisition fosters discipline, confidence, and purpose.

“This schoolhouse embodies the aforesaid committedness to springiness each kid the accidental to learn, dream, and succeed,” helium added.

He appreciated the leaders, stakeholders, and radical of Itire-lkate LCDA for naming the instauration aft his name.

According to him, the power of the instauration volition widen good beyond its classrooms.

“It volition make jobs for teachers, administrators, and enactment staff, and it volition service arsenic a centre of learning and assemblage pride.

“It volition signifier the adjacent procreation of leaders, innovators, and professionals who volition lend to the advancement of Lagos State and Nigeria.

“When a assemblage invests successful education, it invests successful peace, prosperity, and continuity,” helium said.

The Chief of Staff expressed gratitude to the Lagos State Government, peculiarly the Ministry of Basic Education, for their concern and committedness to integrating this schoolhouse into the nationalist acquisition system.

Alao speaking, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said that the inauguration of Femi Gbajabiamila Junior and Senior Secondary School, was a testament to powerfulness of philanthropy and dedication successful the transportation of transformative invention that tin alteration the assemblage forever.

Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr Jamiu Alli-Balogun, described the task arsenic beingness transforming.

“The frontier of acquisition governance globally is predicated connected collaboration and concern with the authorities connected gathering a amended and brighter time for our children.

“With entree to qualitative acquisition successful the state, I widen my heartfelt congratulations to the main of unit to Mr President and by hold to everyone that has contributed to the realisation of this singular project.

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