The Chairman, Ondo State House of Assembly Committee on Education, Science and Technology, Simeon Borokini, has advocated improved technical and vocational training programmes for teeming youths in the state.
Borokini said this on Thursday when he led other members of the committee on an oversight visit to the state Board for Adult, Technical and Vocational Education in Akure.
He said the committee’s visit was not to witch-hunt anyone but to perform its responsibilities toward enhancing the educational sector in the state.
He charged the board to come up with more ideas that would further improve adult education in the state.
He said that the committee would critically review the activities and challenges of the board in order to keep delivering on its mandate.
Borokini commended Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu for the payment of NABTEB examination fees for over 300 students, describing it as first of its kind in the state.
He advised the board not to relent in its efforts at moving the sector to an enviable heights, saying that the committee would address challenges confronting the board.
Mr. Tosin Adekugbe, the Permanent Secretary of the Board, who briefed the lawmakers on the activities of the board, noted that Adult Education gives hope to adults who feel they have come of age to learn the zeal to believe in themselves.
Adekugbe added that the board had been delivering vocational programmes to the people and had constructed a fish pond containing over 2,000 fish at the Kudirat Abiola Skills Acquisition Centre, Akure, for training.
He also commended Gov. Akeredolu for his special interest in Adult Education and the payment of examination fees for final year students in all Government Technical Colleges in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the committee was later shown materials such as liquid soaps, bags, confectionaries, among others made by some students of Technical College, Owo. (NAN)
