Ikotun Senior High School wins Rotary Inter-schools debate

With the 77.7 per cent it carded, Ikotun Senior High School, carried the day in the 2016 edition of Rotary Annual Inter-schools Debate Competition.

The victory was courtesy of the exploits of David O. Uwoziya, and Yewande D. Akinfaderin, the chief speaker and support speaker in that order.

The competition, which topic for the senior category was, “Government Should Adopt Rotary Succession System,” was jointly organised by Rotary Club of Ikoyi and Rotary Club of Igando. The debate took place at Gloryland Hall and Suits, Isheri, Lagos.

In the junior category, Idimu Junior High School, represented by Ayomide Akinbolusere and Ebunoluwa Famuagun, finished tops scoring 74.6 per cent. The junior schools deliberated on the topic “Corrupt Individuals Have Infiltrated Rotary.”

For their efforts, the two winning schools were rewarded with prizes including fridges, books, mobile phones among others.

In the senior category, Ikotun Senior Grammar School settled for the second spot while Olorunfunmi Senior Grammar School ended the competition in third place.

Igando Community Junior High School and Ikotun Junior High School finished second and third respectively in the junior category.

President, Rotary Club of Igando, Otunba Adebayo Akin-Omotuyi, said the purpose of the competition was to sell Rotary to the future generation of Rotarians, and to intimate the world that the negative stories about public schools and their teachers were not entirely true.

“We can deduce from what happened here today that the government is actually trying and that public schools are not as bad as people speculate. We are encouraging the government to do more with a view to lifting the standard of education to an expected enviable level,” he said.

Akin-Omotuyi added that the competition was also meant to encourage children to learn how to express themselves in public as leaders of tomorrow.

“While we hope to make this event bigger next year, possibly a state-wide competition, we would work on some of the points the children raised during the competition.