Ogun, MMF Partner on Infrastructure Upgrade

A Non-profit organisation, Margaret Modinat Foundation (MMF) on Monday handed over to Ogun State government a newly reconstructed block of three classrooms with furniture and four toilets at Comprehensive High School, Ijebu Ife in Ijebu East Local Government Area of the state.

The donor and founder of the NGO, Princess Olanrewaju Osibote said that her passion for humanity and desire to further create conducive learning atmosphere for the students informed her decision to embark on the project about a month ago and this she said cost her a princely sum of N11m

Osibote said she had always been an advocate of selfless service and this she said was one of those traits she inherited from her late Mum who she said was always willing to share the little she had cheerfully with others without expecting anything in return.

She explained that “I have always been immersed in giving back to the people and society, its one passion and sense of duty that always makes fulfilled and be at peace with myself. We have done a lot of this in Lagos State, helping the widows and all that but I said let me come back home and see what could be done. I was then informed of the situation of things in this school, so I came around and what I saw wasn’t something so good.

Receiving the donation on behalf of the state government, the Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Education, Prof Abayomi Arigbabu represented by the Zonal Education Officer of Ijebu East Local Government, Mrs Ola-Egbin Ola lauded the donor for her deep sense of passion for humanity and particularly her interest to join the Gov Abiodun-led administration in building a better future for the country through her investment in the education sector.

Arigbabu said that the government of Gov Abiodun is opened to this kind of enduring partnership saying that though the government had equally invested heavily in turning around the fortune of the education sector in the state with construction and rehabilitation of about a 1000 classrooms, provision of furniture, employment of more teachers among others but complementary support from individuals and organisations would always added greater value and bite to achieving excellence in the sector.

Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the occasion, Hon Kehinde Joseph representing Alimosho Constituency II at Lagos State House of Assembly, commended the extraordinary passion the donor has for touching lives.