Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said that his administration would take security of public schools very seriously, noting that his vision in education was to ensure every child in public schools had unrestricted access to quality education. Speaking while commissioning a state-of-the-art school edifice comprising 18 classrooms at Elemoro Community Junior Secondary School and a mini stadium, Sanwo-Olu said the project was designed to offer learning services, recreational activity and extracurricular leisure. Built on 1.54 hectares of land, the imposing Elemoro Community Junior Secondary School was designed to offer learning services, recreational activity and extracurricular leisure. There will be no more long-distance trek from home to school for Junior Secondary School pupils in Elemoro community in Ibeju Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State.
The project, conceived by the Sanwo-Olu administration, was initiated as an intervention to address a shortfall in access to education in the community. Before the school was built, pupils in the town usually trekked long distances to schools located outside the community. Inaugurating the school, built behind Area J Police Command in Elemoro, the governor said the project was dear to his heart, as its delivery demonstrated fulfillment of his campaign pledge to the Oke Odo-Elemoro-Iwerekun community. Sanwo-Olu praised the town’s traditional ruler, Oba Tajudeen Elemoro, for freely donating the land on which the education projects are built. The governor said his administration prioritized provision of infrastructure in education in recognition of the nexus between knowledge and development.
He said: “This newly constructed educational facility is a project that is dear to my heart and has made me extremely pleased, because it is a fulfilment of my promise to provide the Okeodo-Elemoro-Iwerekun community with a secondary school.” Aside from the 18-classroom block, the school also has 12 standard classrooms, six special rooms for Home Economics, Technology, a studio for arts and music, science laboratory, library and ICT room.
It also has teachers’ offices, sickbay, standard canteen block and over 30 toilets. Other recreational facilities built in the school include a six-lane sandwich athletics running track and a spacious seating arena. Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, emphasised the importance of modern infrastructure to the delivery of quality education, stressing that access to conducive facilities would aid pupils realise their full potential. Adefisayo praised Sanwo- Olu’s passion and sustained commitment to the provision of world-class infrastructure in public schools, describing the gesture as “exemplary”.
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