Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that no state in the country could compete with the state in terms of infrastructural development in primary and secondary schools.
According to a statement by his media adviser, Sola Fasure, the governor said this while featuring on an NTA network programme, ‘Good Morning Nigeria.’
Aregbesola described the provision of free meals to pupils in all government-owned primary schools in the state as exceptional.
He said that Osun had received many awards, particularly from international organisations, based on its school-feeding programme, which, he claimed, had drastically increased pupil enrolment in primary schools in the state.
“Osun Elementary School Feeding and Health Programme is one of our programmes. Thousands of pupils are fed every school day, while the state recruited thousands of young women as food vendors discharging the responsibility of cooking and serving the pupils in all the government-owned elementary schools delicious and salubrious meals.
“We also invested hugely in school infrastructure as this initiative brings about the successes with which we have recorded on our massive school infrastructure development.
“Osun, with the exception of Lagos, remains the state that has concentrated the largest chunks of her resources on bringing meaningful development to education.
“We didn’t stop at that; we provided the necessary infrastructure to aid quality and functional education, which we called the infrastructure of the mind, regardless of what you read in the newspapers.
“I don’t think there is any state in Nigeria today that can rival us in the provision of massive quality infrastructural facilities, as we have put down at both elementary and secondary education in Osun,”part of the statement read.
