Ogun to spend N70m on rehabilitation of schools

Olatunde Okeowo, chairman, Ogun Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), says the state government will be spending N70 million to rehabilitate public primary schools in 2017.

Okeowo disclosed this while defending the 2017 budget proposal of the board before the Ogun House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation at the Assembly Complex in Abeokuta.

The chairman said that the amount would cater for any occurrence of national disaster in the public primary schools across the three senatorial districts of the state.

According to him, the sum of N260.5 million would be used for the provision of consumable and non-consumable instructional materials, retraining of teachers and conduct of unified examination for primary schools.

“The government wants to ensure that by 2017, children everywhere in the state will be able to complete a full course of basic schooling. We want to capture all the children of school age in the full observation of the Universal Basic Education law,’’ he said.

Okeowo said that SUBEB had earmarked N1.5billion as its capital expenditure, while N580 million had been budgeted for recurrent expenditure.