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 and the provision of lighting for the school.
Speaking in Ado-Ekiti at the biannual reunion of the Alumni Association, the President, Kayode Fashubaa, stated that the association spent the sum on the renovation of some hostels and administrative blocks that were in dilapidated condition, the provision of solar street lights, and the renovation of the school gate, among other initiatives.
Fashubaa emphasised that these steps were taken to ensure the safety of students at the full boarding school, asserting that giving the school a more attractive appearance would create a conducive teaching and learning environment.
The President further noted that the solar panel street lights were donated by the 1993 set, while the new gatehouse was facilitated by the 1999 set.
He reiterated his commitment to leading an alumni association that would tirelessly work for the progress of the school and continue to foster good partnerships with the government for the benefit of the institution.
However, Fashubaa expressed concern about the high rate of encroachment on the school’s land and properties by land grabbers, as well as certain federal government-owned institutions located around the school premises.
He urged the state government to intervene to protect the students living within the school compound, as the activities of the land grabbers were 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 at a school like Christ School.
Our land is being encroached upon by land grabbers and sold to people. The school lecture theatres, fine arts studios, 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 school is owned by the state government. 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 as strategic at a time when the government is advocating for safe spaces for teaching and learning.
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