By Damilola Akinlotan
Barely one week after the Chairman of Ajoni LCDA Ayedun Ekiti, Prince Michael Ogungbemi played host to a team of American NGO- Interweaves Solutions International, it was the turn of another US based NGO- BASIA on Tuesday, who helped to turn the sod of the construction of a block of classrooms at St. Luke’s Primary School Esun Ekiti.
Team ‘BASIA’ simply means Build A School In Africa, a Non-Governmental Organization whose duty, it was learnt was to go round Africa sub -region to help reduce out of school children.
According to the Ajoni council boss, the LCDA has partnered with the Organization to build a school at St Stephen’s Primary School Ayebode Ekiti which was completed, commissioned and handed over to State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB in 2022.
The ground opening ceremony at St Luke’s Primary School Esun Ekiti today, was the second phase of such intervention by the foreign partners.
According to the host LCDA Chairman; “The project is an international standard four classrooms which would be completed in eleven weeks precisely by November.
“We are doing this because we believe in process of timeliness, precision and standard which this school would be built upon by the BASIA team and this is made possible as a result of counter funding arrangement to ensure that the school is built”
On the cost implications of the school project, Ogungbemi said;
“That School is worth about 45,000 USD because it is more durable and standard. We will supply the school with marker board and other school supplies and it would be monitored and taken care of in the next four to five years and then handed over to the school authority so that there’s room for maintenance and sustenance because in terms of the quality, we are offering the best to our people in Ajoni Local Government”
The ground opening of the new classrooms block was well attended by representatives of SUBEB, NUT, and top officials of Ajoni LCDA as well as the royal fathers in the community led by the Alaaye of Oke- Ayedun Ekiti HRM Oba Aribisala Olufemi, HRM Oba Solomon Ajibade, the Owa of Odo Ayedun, HRM Oba Azeez Adebanjo, the Olu of Itapaji and HRM Oba David Babatunde the Elesun of Esun
