The alumni association of the Omuo Comprehensive High School (OCHS), Omuo-Ekiti, has reaffirmed its commitment to giving back to the institution through mentorship, infrastructure support, scholarships and partnerships that strengthen teaching and learning.

The alumni association also commissioned a N100 million library, donated by the 1979/80 set, for the use of the institution’s students.

The OCHS alumni association President, Dr Segun Abe, who spoke, at the weekend, during the 56 Founder’s Day celebration at the school’s premises in Omuo-Ekiti, appreciated various alumni associations’ sets who have commissioned one project or the other for the development of the school, while thanking individual leaders who attracted and constructed gigantic projects to improve teaching and learning in the school.

He lauded the teachers, both past and present, whose labour and sacrifices have produced men and women of substance across diverse fields of human endeavour.

Abe urged the students to emulate the old students by carrying themselves as the living future of the institution.

“Wear the school’s values with pride, let excellence (seek to excel) be your habit, curiosity your compass and service your signature,” he said.

In his address, the school’s Principal, Ajobiewe Adeolu, said that the school’s pioneering set remained the pathfinders, whose youthful strength and sweat transformed a space that was once farmland and forest into an intellectual garden dedicated to the flowering of knowledge and excellence.

He expressed gratitude to members of the alumni association for their relentless efforts to improve students’ learning conditions through infrastructure provision, mentoring, and scholarships.

In his goodwill message, former Secretary to the Ekiti State Government and pioneer President of the alumni association, Foluso Daramola, appealed to all old students to work relentlessly to keep the flag flying.

Meanwhile, some highlights of the three-day events included career and mentorship sessions, medical outreach services, the yearly general meeting of all the sets, the election/affirmations of the executive members, traditional burn fire and gala night.