The Governor Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola has commissioned another new elementary school in Osogbo, the state capital.

It is named in honour of former Military Administrator of the state, Navy Captain Anthony Udofia

Aregbesola at the commissioning commended the mainstream civil servants in the state for not taking the bait and falling prey to what he called the infernal political schemes of failed politicians whom the people of this state have consistently rejected at the polls.‎

He stated that ‎elementary school is the basic of the basic education; hence, any child with a good elementary school foundation will have no problem making progress educationally.

The newly commissioned complex has the capacity to seat 960-pupils with 24 classrooms of 40 pupils each, an ICT room, a library, multi-purpose hall, 29 toilets, offices for headmaster, facility manager, staff room, food court, sick bay, security/reception office and a water fountain for aesthetics.

‎Aregbesola said his administration is building 100 elementary schools including the newly commissioned school across the state, to make elementary public school available in every neighbourhood.
‎He said, “I am happy and fulfilled that we have public schools that can compete with the best in the world and indeed, our new schools are the ones to beat around here.

“All these are in fulfillment of our promise to provide functional basic education for the pupils in the state.‎ This stems from our conviction that every child is owed basic education. It is a fundamental and inalienable right of every child.

“Basic education is basic, pardon my tautology. A good basic education fulfills the definition of literacy as the ability to read and write and is a solid foundation on which other superstructure of vocational training or higher education can be built upon”.
Aregbesola described as ignorant and unreasonable the idea of reducing government to paying salaries alone.

He added that his government is fully conscious of her legal and moral obligations to workers, yet, the truth is that workers are less than five per cent of the population of the state over whom his administration owes responsibilities as a government.