Stakeholder calls for education sector reforms

By Omotayo Ishola & Hannah Ologunde

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mallam Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) has called for a general restructuring of the country’s education system.

Part of the reforms he suggested was that seasoned educators would be brought to levels of “commanding heights”  in the country’s  education system.

Fagbemi made this observation at a presentation of Chief Isaac Olalere Ajayi’s  autobiography “The Unrecorded Beginning” at Ijagbo, Oyun local Government Area,  Kwara State over the weekend.

Fagbemi, an indigene of the community as well as ex-student of the celebrant lamented the terrible state of education system in the country.

On the celebrant,  Fagbemi described the narrator as a front line school administrator who has positively impacted on the lives of his students, most of them occupying strategic positions of authorities in Nigeria.

In his own observation, one of the sons of the celebrant, Barrister Seun Ajayi, described his father as a decisive motivator, an inspirer and an exceptional school administrator whose impact of knowledge has  birthed various professionals in all areas of human endeavour.

Chief Isaac Olalere Ajayi who is Atunlase of Ijagbo -land had taught in all sphere of educational Institutions from primary to the University as well as Ivy league Institution abroad.

Chief I.O Ajayi was the second principal of Government Secondary School, Malete, local Government; a school established in 1971 by the military Administration of late brigadier- General Lasisi David Bamgboye.

Chief I.O Ajayi eventually retired as the principal of Oyun Baptist high school Ijagbo.

He served the country as a top flight educational administrator in several states of Nigeria including Kaduna, Niger, Osun and Kwara states.