Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola has assured the people of the state that by the end of his second term in office no school would be left with any dilapidated classroom.
Aregbesola said with the spate at which his government had been building new schools, the era of unfit learning environment would be history completely.
He spoke at the weekend when he officially commissioned three elementary schools in Ikirun, Iragbiji and Ila-Orangun.
The schools are Holy Trinity Middle School, Ikirun; NUD Middle School, Iragbiji and St Julius Middle School, Ila-Orangun, all in the Osun Central senatorial district.
Built in this same structural pattern, the middle schools, with a capacity to accommodate 1,000 pupils, have 25 classrooms, one large exam hall, 16 toilets, one audio visual room, ICT room, recreation facilities among others.
Addressing the gathering, Governor Aregbesola said with commissioning of the schools, government had raised the stake by putting education on a high pedestal.
The governor disclosed that government is targeting provision of conducive classrooms for over 100, 000 pupils before the end of the year.
He noted also that by the time all the new schools were completed, no pupil or student in Osun would learn in a dilapidated and haphazard classroom again.
The governor stated that part of the responsibilities of his government was to give children in the state qualitative education from the foundation to high school.
Earlier in her remarks, the deputy governor, who doubles as the Commissioner for Education, reaffirmed government’s commitment to standardising the education sector.
She said government would not leave any stone unturned in making sure the state’s education system ranks among the best anywhere in the world.