A set of old students of the ECWA Secondary School, Igbaja, in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State have donated a block of two classrooms to their alma mater.
The post primary institution, established in 1944 (79 years ago) is currently facing infrastructural challenges as most of the buildings are already old, while many have collapsed.
Speaking during the hand over of the classroom structure to the school authorities, the chairman of the 1983 set of the old students association 1978, Chief Samuel Olu Alabi, said that members of the set came together to form the association with a view to contributing their quota to growth of the school, humanity and to promote welfare of one another.
Chief Alabi, who said that the block of classrooms project was not the first effort by the set of the old students, added that the group had, in the past, sponsored school inter-house sports, renovated a block of two classrooms, as well as facilitated books for the school library.
“In addition, one of us, Architect Ibikunle Shonibare, also facilitated the location of a Federal Government motorised borehole with an overhead tank for the school” he said.
The old students who claimed that the school played important roles in their formative years, added that, “in fact, most of us found many of what we have learnt in this school very useful, even later in life.”
“By the verifiable school records, a total of 333 of us graduated in our set, but less than 20 percent of us were actually involved in this project. We have lost some of our members to untimely death. May their respective gentle souls rest in peace.”
“ECWA Secondary School Igbaja, (IGBAOJULE), was established in the year 1944 (79 years ago) as ECWA Teachers’ Training College. It was converted to a secondary school in 1970 and has since been referred to as ECWA Secondary School, lgbaja (Igbaojule).
The citadel of learning is the first and the oldest post primary institution in the Ifelodun Local Government Area, even in the entire lgbomina/Ekiti and may be in the present Kwara State.
“ The school is also the second Teachers’ Training College in the Northern Region and has produced eminent personalities in the society.
“Over the years, the school has made the community, local government and state proud in academics, games and sports; it has been a model to other schools around. Most of the buildings are already old while many have collapsed”, he said.
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