The Executive Secretary of the Odi-Olowo/Ojuwoye Local Council Development Area, Hon AbdulRasaq Ajala has said he is on a mission to rebuild the council through innovative, sustainable programmes and quality leadership.
Ajala who spoke during an interview with The Complete News recently in Lagos said he was passionate about education stressing that his administration will not spare resources at ensuring that deserving indigent students in the Council get qualitative education.
The Council boss who recently distributed free 200 GCE forms to students in the area promised that the Council will support students who passed the examination in flying colours to proceed into the tertiary institutions.
Ajala, while disclosing the strict measures adopted in selecting beneficiaries of the forms said, ‘I personally conducted exams that qualified that benefitted from the free GCE forms. I did that not because I don’t believe in my team but to eliminate any forms favoritism’.
He continued, “None of them can claim that the questions linked. The examination was slated for 2:30. I came in 2:28. Before my arrival, they had already seated in their various classes. I told them that the rules guiding the exams were not different from other standardized exams.
“The students who wrote the examination were warned against malpractices. Anyone caught with malpractices will be shown the way out. Yoruba proverbs says , “Charity begins at home’. If you cannot passed the mock examination I don’t are you will make the real exam.
“We want our students to be good ambassadors that were why we conducted the mock test to separate the wheat from the chaffs. It was done in public glare. We invited representatives from the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Community Development Committee, Christian Association of Nigeria and the Muslim community. We adopted conference marking strategy.
Ajala said that even his family members who could not scale the bar were denied the forms.
Also speaking on his relationship with the people of the Council, Ajala said he was always on the field to listen to the plight of the people stressing that he lives among them.
His words, “I am not an armchair Executive. I am always on the field to know what is happening. That is how I can get the necessary feedbacks that will assist in policy formulation. Government is not a tea-party. It is a serious business. It involves a lot of planning, strategic thinking and writing. That is why I dedicate Thursday for visiting. I live among them; I stay in the heart of Mushin, Akala. That is one of the notorious area in LCDA. By 6 am, people already are waiting for me.
“If I am not in the office, I will be on the field attending to community needs. Moreso, late Sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo said that you should not give Executive position to someone who does not have things he is doing. There is tendency such fellow could covert collective patrimony into personal use. But, if are engaged before you assumed public office, you will adopt a broader and selfless approach.
“For instance, recently, I was driving and I heard on Bond Fm that an accident had just occurred at Ilupeju Bye-pass; we had to turn back from where were going and rushed to the scene to rescue the victims. We called the relevant agencies. If not for the timely intervention the accident victims would have died”.
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