By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The President of 76-81 set of old
Students of the Federal Government College (FGC) Odoogbolu, Mr Ayoola Olaitan at the weekend, advocated a conducive learning environment for every girl child in the school
Mr Olaitan stated this while speaking with journalists shortly after cutting of the tape of the newly renovated girls hostel in the college.
He stressed that the gesture was part of the efforts by the 1976-1981 set in their efforts to ensure a conducive learning environment for every girl child in the school, as well as complimenting government’s commitments in delivering affordable and quality education for all and sundry irrespective of their status commissioned a newly refurbished girls hostel in their Alma Mater.
The President emphasized that, ” it is very very important to take good care of girl child” adding, “these are young girls that have left their parents, I think we owe them a duty to put them in a comfortable environment.
” They will have this kind of mentality that they are comfortable and they have to shun all vices we don’t expect them of doing, there are certain things we’re expect them to be doing right now, like focusing on their studies, and by providing this kind of conducive environment for them, I’m so sure it will really have positive impact on them”, he said.
Mr Olaitan added, “As a father of girls myself, I have a believe that if you don’t give your girl child what they need, somebody else will give them and when they give them, it will come with a condition and we don’t want our girl child to grow up like that.”
Speaking on the motivation behind the project, the 1976-1981 set President said, “The motivation behind the project is that as a set 76-81, we take particular interest in the girl child, we think we can make their environment in the school more conducive for learning.
“We came to the school and we met with the Principal and I must say the Principal has tried a lot for the school because when we were here it wasn’t like this, it was more barbaric than this, so we decided to improve the facility, the federal government is busy on other things, so we decided to assist and keep assisting because like I always say, we can’t wait for the government to do everything for us, so this is one of the beginning of many things to be done, this is like a deposit of the many things, we will still do more both as a set and as the national body of this great alma mater of ours.”
According to him, ” The project is total renovation of the girls hostel, what we are standing on right now used to be a pieces of earth, but it’s now a brand new floor with painting, my classmates decided to do all these for the girls hostel here, this is a quadrangle where they can play and read their books, the ambience is nice, this will surely assist them positively.”
Chairman of the renovation project, Eguarekhide Longe, in his remarks called on Nigerians to join hands with government by coming up with initiative like this with the aim to transform the public schools system.
“Government is us, and we are the government, so when you think about the banters that we have in our old school WhatsApp platforms, we need to translate this into this kind of action, so for us, this is a deposit, it is a more of better initiative to transform the public schools system, to renovate the public schools system.”
