- Says his govt has recorded 57. 46 % in education performance
For the first time, Governor of Osun
state, Mr, Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday disclosed that neither his
government nor himself has ever ordered the use of hijab by female
Muslim students in public schools in the state.
He stated this at the roundtable on
Development Collaborative Framework for Education Development and
Advancement organised by the Development and Advancement in Western
Nigeria (DAWN) in Osogbo.
Aregbesola challenged openly those who
accused him of ordering the use of hijab by Muslims to bring concrete
proof to substantiate their mischievous claims.
The governor challenged those accusing
him of plunging the state into religious crisis to the present a video
or voice recording, written speech evidencing where he commanded or
ordered female Muslim students to wear Hijab on their uniform.
He averred that all programmes
introduced into the state’s education rebranding are the resolutions
that came out of the education summit organised by his administration
shortly after coming into office.
Aregbesola noted that the resolution of
the summit, headed by Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, never
considered nor recommended any religion.
Speaking on education in the West, the
Governor noted that the downward trend in education should be worrisome
due to the role of education in development and bringing enlightenment
to the human mind, platform for leadership recruitment and the means
for character building and good citizenship.
The Governor stated that when he came to
government, the first task of his administration was to convene an
education summit which was chaired by Prof Wole Soyinka, adding that all
intervention of government in education since inception came from the
recommendations of the summit and nothing about religion.
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