The Osun State
chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has alerted the public on
how Governor Rauf Aregbesola deceived President Muhammadu Buhari on the
truth behind the Osogbo High School commissioned on Thursday.
In a statement issued on Friday,
September 2, 2016 and signed by the Osun State’s chairman of the PDP,
Soji Adagunodo, the party said the commissioned school is not a public
school but a fee-charging one to be managed commercially until the loan
taken to build it is repaid.
“We want to alert the public and
President Muhammadu Buhari that they were deceived as the new school is
not a public school as publicly presented at the commissioning,” the
statement, obtained by The Trent, said.
“Contrary to reports presented to the
President and the public, the school is more or less a business outfit
to charge high fees in an impoverished Osun State.
“In its usual deceptive and propagandist
manner, the state Governor did not inform the President and the public
that the school was funded with a Sukuk loan and will therefore be run
not as a public but high fee-paying private school.
“We can reveal that the Oshogbo High
School commissioned on Thursday will be managed as a commercial entity
by either Olasore International School, Iloko or Corona School, Lagos.
The managers are to charge high fees like the elite private schools.
“We want to inform the public that the
school Mr. President commissioned is different from Oshogbo Grammar
School, the reason why both schools are separated by a fence. The
governor has just use a public land to start an educational business
venture.
“The public should also note that
teachers in the new school will be recruited and paid by the
managers.Admissions will be done by them too from all parts of the
country.It is therefore not a public school”,the statement posited.
“While we are in support of projects
designed to enhance educational access, we condemn the effrontery of the
state governor for tricking and lying to the president and good people
of Osun State. It is immoral, reprehensible and against good governance.
“It is criminal to take loans in the
name of a people and spend it on a project without benefit for them.
These same impoverished citizenry are paying for the loan through their
nose.How many Osun citizens can pay for normal private schools talkless
of high fees-paying school modelled after Corona school in Lagos?
“We frown at top level incorrigibility
of the APC government in Osun state. We had warned the Governor to
review his failed educational policies. This is another demonstration of
condemnable insensitivity and inhumanity of a Governor to his
citizens,” the statement concluded.
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