Support Your Alma Mata, Says Funso Sonde
A call has gone to all past students of Egba Obafemi Community Grammar School especially those excelling in their various fields of endeavors and professions to extend hands of generosity and facilitate supportive programmes that will assist the current students and the national alumni body of the School.
Making the call on Saturday 13th December was the newly elected President of the Alumni Association, Professor Funso Sonde while reading his acceptance speech noting that “United we stand, and divided we fall”
While paying glowing tributes to past presidents of the alumni body, Alhaji Musiliu Onifade and Alhaji Mutiu Dada for laying solid foundations for the current executive committee to follow, Professor Sonde emphasized the need for the old students to rise to the occasion as the physical structures in the school does not support excellence in academic pursuits.
“How can a student who offer science subjects pass when the building housing the laboratory has fallen down, this is not acceptable and a complete contrast to what I saw some 37 years ago when I had my teaching practice here as a student of Ogun State College of Education” he decried.
The President then reeled out his programmes for the next four years which include regular organization of programmes that would encourage the current students to work harder, improvements on the physical facilities available in the school most especially the various classroom blocks that are no more habitable, completion of all alumni projects especially those nearing completion, interacting meaningfully with Ogun State Ministry of Education towards facilitating more physical developments and posting of more quality teachers to the school, organization of welfare programmes that will improve learning for all current students in the school as well as seeing to the creation of leadership of at least the first 20 sets of the school with a view to improving the list of financial members of the alumni body nationally and internationally.
Earlier in his welcome address, the immediate past president, Alhaji Mutiu Dada urged all alumnus to cooperate and support the new Exco to be able to move the name of the school beyond what it is currently saying that government alone cannot provide all that a school required.
While expressing his appreciation for the support given his regime particularly for the renovation of a seven bedroom living quarters to ease the accommodation problem facing the school as well as provision of modern toilet facilities for the school, Alhaji Dada also praised the state commissioner for education, Prof Arigbabu Abayomi for renovating a block of classrooms through the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
The election of the new Executives also saw the emergence of Gabriel Jolaoso as Deputy President, Moruf Oyeneye; General Secretary, Musibau Kareem; Treasurer, Hafees Sowemimo; Financial Secretary, Omolaja Agbeleshe; Legal Adviser, Olusiji Oyesile; Public Relations Officer, Taiwo Gabriel; Assistant General Secretary, Suleman Isola; Social/Welfare Officer, Sakirudeen Tejuoso; Chief Whip and Olufunke Shodipo Adebajo as Vice President, Diaspora.
The new president then sworn in members of the planning committee who are saddled with the task of planning for the school’s golden jubilee in 2027
