The Alumni Association of Ekiti State Government College (formerly Unity Secondary School) Ado-Ekiti has expended over fifteen million naira on the renovation of key infrastructure as well as the provision of lighting for the school.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti at the biannual reunion of the Alumni Association, the president, Kayode Fashubaa, said the alumni association expended the sum on the renovation of some hostels and administrative blocks which were in dilapidating conditions, provision of solar street lights and the renovation of the school gate among others.
Fashubaa said all the steps were taken to ensure the safety of students of the full boarding school, adding that ” giving the school a befitting look will not only make it more attractive to students but also enhance a conducive teaching and learning environment.”
The president who disclosed that the 1993 set donated the solar panel street lights while the new gatehouse was facilitated by 1999 set, reiterated his commitment to leading an alumni association that would work tirelessly for the progress of the school and continue to ensure good partnerships with the government for the benefit of the school.
He, however, lamented the high rate of encroachment of the school land and properties by some land grabbers as well as some federal government-owned institutions located around the school premises.
He called on the state government to intervene with a view to protecting students of the school who are all living in the school compound; adding that the activities of the land grabbers are already making the school prone to external aggression.
“The alumni body is not happy with the way our school is being balkanized. What we are experiencing now cannot be done to a school like Christ School. Our land is being encroached by land grabbers and sold to people.
” The school lecture theatres, fine arts studio, and technical laboratories, among other facilities, have been taken over by unknown individuals. We want to appeal to the state government to wade into this matter urgently since the state government owns the school. Whoever needs land should go elsewhere and stop making the students insecure,” he said.
Responding, the Commissioner for Education, Dr. Bimpe Aderiye, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Teaching Service Commission, Michael Omolayo, appreciated the Alumni Association for the facilities they provided for the school, describing them to be strategic at the time the government is championing safe space for teaching and learning.
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