A total of 105 primary schools in Oyo State have been selected for the renovation of their infrastructure under the All Additional Financing-Transforming Education System at States (BESDA AF-TEES) of the World Bank Global Partnership for Education (GPE).
Oyo, Adamawa, and Katsina States are the three states selected to benefit from a $123.8 million support grant by the World Bank Global Partnership for Education (GPE), which focuses on improving basic education.
Out of the support grant, Oyo State is to get about N4 billion to cover the renovation of three classrooms, procure new infrastructure, build toilets for males and females, sink boreholes, and install solar power in each of the selected schools.
The select schools, according to the Oyo deputy governor, Mr. Bayo Lawal, who did a symbolic presentation of checks to benefiting schools at the State Secretariat, Ibadan, on Friday, spread across the three senatorial districts of the state.
Lawal particularly charged the School-Based Management Committee of schools to monitor to ensure that the intervention is done to the letter.
Also speaking, Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Professor Salihu Adelabu, said the state government assessed the needs of the various primary schools in the state to choose the 105 schools deemed to be in need of urgent intervention.
Some of the schools that got the symbolic checks are Oluyole Local Government Council Primary School, Oba Ado; St. Luke’s Primary School, Akintunde; and Islamic Mission School, Sango, Eruwa.
Giving more details on the intervention, Special Adviser to the Oyo State Governor on Education Intervention, Mr Suraj Tiamiyu, said the communities of the benefiting schools, engineers, and architects will monitor to ensure the project is delivered to specifications.
Tiamiyu said the project is to be completed within two weeks and will be simultaneously done in all the selected schools.
Tiamiyu said, “We are lucky to be part of three states in the BESDA AF project. In this project, we have opportunity to renovate 105 schools in Oyo State.
“Also, we will have the opportunity to have new furniture in the classrooms. We will renovate three classrooms in the selected schools. The schools will have the opportunity to have two toilets for male and female students.
There will also have boreholes and solar for all the schools.
“About N4 billion is to be expended to take care of furniture, boreholes, classrooms, and toilets. The COREN will supervise the schools, and an architect will monitor. The project is to be completed in six weeks.
“This is a BESDA project about rural areas in Oyo State. This is for primary schools. This is a community project.
There is the SBMC, School-Based Management Committee. They will monitor the job to get it delivered within six weeks. We’ll get someone to monitor them.”
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