A socio-economic group, Grassroots For Itesiwaju Ipinle Oyo on Tuesday blasted the governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, the state government and the directors of Education in secondary and primary schools for organising a solidarity walk for Makinde ahead of saturday’s election.
The group wondered when civil servants have turned themselves to politicians rather than focusing on their primary responsibility.
The group, in a statement issued by its Convener Dr. Bello Razaq said instead of the state government to think of improving education standard, it is busy coercing the teachers to begin walking for him.
According to him, the state now 33rd out 36 states in WAEC rating while the Polytechnic Ibadan has been deranked from number 4th to 24th position, which is a total failure on the part of the government.
The group futher said it expected Makinde to resign considering the recent delisted of 50 schools by the WAEC for examination malpractices but he was busy juncketing Abuja-Ibadan over party politics and selfish desire.
Grassroots For Itesiwaju Ipinle Oyo therefore faulted the governor for bribing director of schools with N500million to begin moving from one school to another and organising fake solidarity walk5 for him when he knew he had killed Education of the state.
“For you to know that Makinde is confused on revitalising our education, he recently began move to reintroduce school governing board, a loudable concept of our former late governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi. The concept really helped education sector in the state. But out of “bad bele politics”, Makinde scraped it. But today, the effect is failure.
“It is visible to the blind and audible to the deaf Governor Makinde has done damages to education sector in Oyo State. We pray God gives us a better governor on Saturday, else the education sector would be dead in the state.
“We fault the solidarity walk in strong term and we expect Makinde and his supporters who are civil servants to be careful of turning our schools to campaign grounds. We expect the teachers to know their primary responsibilities, rather than engaging in politics.”
