Makinde facilitates empowerment for students, schools 

Member of the House of Representatives representing Ondo East/West federal constituency, Hon. Peter Abiola Makinde, has facilitated a school empowerment scheme for students and schools in his constituency.

The event held at the NIEPA Hall, Ondo, witnessed the distribution of educational materials to primary school pupils, secondary school students, and public schools within Ondo East and West Federal Constituency.

Items distributed include notebooks, textbooks, laptops, projectors, digital printers, TV projectors, scanners, modern desks, photocopier machines,etc.

In his remarks at the event, Hon. Abiola Makinde made reference to the very important role of education as a veritable tool for national development and social cohesion. He committed to the sustenance of the empowerment programme which has now become a yearly event for the overall benefit of the community.

Speaking further on what inspired the programme, he noted that education remains a critical and important part of his WEALTH agenda, meaning Water Education, Agriculture Light Training and Health, a multi-sectoral framework for accelerated development of Ondo East and West Federal Constituency.

Makinde explained that his interventions so far in the educational sector include the donation of new primary schools, the facilitation of a modern library, the donation of blocks of classrooms in several primary schools, and the donation of critical equipment, among other things.

Elated parents and students who benefited from the generous empowerment programme appreciated the visionary leadership of Honourable Abiola Makinde in providing modern educational equipment that would equip them with the requisite knowledge and skills necessary for them to compete favourably with their peers in other climes.

Stakeholders in the education sector present at the event commended Makinde for his continuous, timely, standard, and far-reaching intervention and investment in the education sector in the Ondo East and Ondo West federal constituency, noting that his sterling efforts in the sector will not go unnoticed in the annals of history.

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