Speaking on behalf of the corps members, Adetayo Adeyemi, Folorunso Thomas and Sidikat Queen commended the community leaders, World Bank and the state government for their support towards ensuring a befitting accommodation was built for them.
According to Adetayo Adeyemi, he was comfortable with a self-contain to himself despite negative stories he heard about Ayete when he was on camp especially about accommodation.
“Before now, many of our students find it very difficult to read books while many demonstrated lack of interest in education but now that the corps members are living close to school, they teach and encourage them. In fact, they have told the management that they wanted to begin extra moral classes for the students. Hopefully, with their efforts which is now having positive impact on the students, there will be improvement in our results soon,” she said.
Earlier, the chairman, Community Project Management Committee (CPMC), Alhaji Oladele Waheed, said that schools in the community lacked competent teachers and the corps members who are supposed to cover up usually reject serving in the community once they arrive and discovered that there was no toilet in some of the available houses.
He said the parents discovered that many of the corps members are source of motivation and encouragement for their children, that was why they met with the management of the CDSA to sought for their financial support through the state government and the World Bank.
“We met with them and they facilitated the financial support which I am the chairman of the committee that executed the projects. We provided 10 per cent of the total cost for the projects and they gave us the 90 per cent to complete the projects. The projects executed by my committee are; 10 rooms Copers’ Lodge with full facilities including water project and four motorised borehole located in different areas of the community. Water was like gold in our community before now. We have to go far before we could get water but today, water is available for us.”
The Chairman community development association in the area, Elder Ayanleke Samuel Ayangbade, said the situation was very tough for the corps members before the intervention to the extent that many of they prefer to travel for months.
“They look for bush to defecate. Meanwhile, we need them because they assist our children a lot. That was why we met with the CDSA to find a lasting solution to it. We thank the World Bank and the Oyo State government for their support. We don’t mind having more of this because they normally post 50 corps members to our community and there is need to accommodate more,” he said.