Students enrollment into Ogun State public schools had risen from 292,324 in 2010/2011 to 387,915 in the 2011/2012 academic session in secondary schools and from 406,890 in 2010/2011 to 506,002 in the 2012/2013 academic session in primary schools .
This was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Dr. Tunji Abimbola, in a statement issued in the State capital, Abeokuta on Sunday.
Abimbola however attributed the increase to the recent overhauling of the education sector in the state by the
Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led administration.
He noted that Senator Amosun had spent over N278m on the rehabilitation of classrooms in 100 schools in the three senatorial districts of the state.
The statement read, “Enrolment figures into public secondary and primary schools in Ogun State have been on the upward swing since the advent of the Senator Ibikunle Amosun administration, investigations have revealed.
“Amosun, during his inauguration on May 29, 2011 declared free education in all its public secondary and primary schools, insisting that the government owes the citizenry the duty to ensure that education at the two tiers of education remains free to allow the children of the under privileged to benefit.
“The administration then followed up the declaration with the distribution of free textbooks and instructional materials to the students in 2012.
“Parents responded positively to the development by sending their children into the schools as figures gleaned from the department of Planning, Research and Statistics of the state Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, indicates that enrolment figure in both tiers of education is on the rise.”
Abimbola added that the increase in the number of students enrolling into public schools had a “negative effect on the enrollment figure of private schools in the state most of whose proprietors are groaning under low patronage.”
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