The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has inaugurated a community based management committee for public schools in the state, describing it as a bold step towards the effective maintenance of public school facilities across the state.

Speaking at the inauguration held at the government technical college in Osogbo, Aregbesola pointed out that the move is aimed at returning the schools to the communities, which he described as the original owners for easy management and maintenance.

He said the government is inaugurating the committee because it is believed that the community owns education and they are the ones who can manage better than anybody.

While explaining the importance of education to the society, the state governor stressed that education is very critical because it is an area where no society can afford to fail, emphasising that it is only through education that the society can meet up the present and safeguard the future.

The Governor among other objectives charged the committee members to source for funds to maintain and manage the schools without creating unnecessary burden on parents and pupils but to find a way of assisting them.

He also charged the committee to identify the school needs and lapses so as to find lasting solutions to them, while also explaining to them not to see their appointment into the various committees as a political reward but a call to be part of history.

“I want you to know that this assignment should not be seen as a political reward, you should rather see it as a call to be part of history because we are changing the face of education in the state of Osun and we will be surely remembered for it”, he said.