Children Day: Aregbesola Calls For Quality Education, Parental Guidance

Osun state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has called on all stakeholders involved in the upbringing of children not to spare any amount, efforts and steps in security quality education for their children and wards, for them to be better equipped for the future challenges ahead.

Aregbesola said his administration is spending huge amount of money to give and promote functional education to the school children in the state, saying that failure to do would spell doom for the society.

The governor stated this at the weekend while speaking at the March Past and Calisthenics display ceremony organized to commemorate the year 2018 National Children’s Day Celebration.

Speaking further at the event which has as its theme: “Creating Safe Spaces For Our Children”: Our collective responsibility”, Aregbesola said only the educated and skilled fellow will survive the future challenges.

Aregbesola who held that children deserve to be celebrated on a daily basis, basic education is highly important for the children, noting that the state government is investing in the basic education in its effort to create a complete individual that will be useful to the society.

He said: “We need to take very seriously the education of our children, we need to train them for the challenging future ahead of us and we must not spare any amount to achieve this.

“Our administration has spent so much in the education sector because we know that we are investing in the future of our state, everybody involved with children must begin to take care of children more than ever before because a failure to do this will not be good at all.

“The future we are heading to is one that will require only the educated and highly skilled individual to survive in; it is a future that will be such that if you are not skilled, things may be difficult for you.

“Low skills and menial jobs will be eliminated in the next 50 years, only the educated and skilled individual will be relevant and that is what we are preparing our children for.

“We must also take the basic school level of education very important, it is at this stage that individuals are forged weather good or bad. That is why we as a government has invested so much in this level of education because we want to create a complete individual who will not think of self alone.”

Speaking on the significance of the calisthenics exercise, the governor said it brings about unity and team spirit which the students and every individual needs to succeed in life, saying that the discipline which the exercise requires can be used to overcome any obstacle.

He added that modern researches have proven that physical exercises is capable of keeping away diseases from the body, saying that the calisthenics programme is a very good form of exercise for the children.

“The calisthenics display that our administration has introduced in Osun is highly essential for young children because it will imbibe in the young ones the spirit of unity, team spirit and a sense of discipline which every individual needs to succeed in life.

“It also serves as a form of exercise which everybody needs because it has been proven that exercises keeps away diseases from the body”, he stated.
In her welcome address, the Commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, Alhaja Latifat Giwa called on stakeholders involved in children upbringing in the society to rise up to the onerous task of nurturing them on the right path because they are the future.

She described the care of the children in the society as one which should not be handled with kids glove, saying every child deserves the best care that adults around can give at any point in time.