• School has only three teaching staff

Members of the Kiriji Memorial College, Igbajo, class of 1972 have called on the indigenes of the town, the old students of the school and the Osun state government for a Kiriji Educational Summit which will look into ways to return the school to its old glory. The school currently has three teaching staff and 240 students.

The 1972 set said the summit has become urgent and necessary to strategize on what should be done to arrest the continued down ward spiral of the fortunes of the 73-year-old institution.

In a statement issued and signed by Mr Akin A. Onipede and Ambassador Eniola Ayo Otepola on behalf of their mates after their 53rd reunion anniversary at Davies Hotels Bodija Ibadan, they frowned and lamented “the decayed infrastructure, lack of teaching staff and the general unattractive sight of the school.”

They were not only shocked that the school had only three teaching staff but also wondered how these teachers who included the principal and his vice were coping in teaching about 240 students.

“Kiriji requires a total social re-engineering that will engender a renewal of the school and its old glory” the statement said.

On the recruitment of teachers by Osun state government the class of 1972 appealed to the government to speed up the process and urged it to put Kiriji Memorial College on the priority list.

With a proud history of academic excellence in the West African Examination Council and General Certificate Examination Advance Level when the school was running Higher School Certificate, the present state of affairs reared its ugly head when the school was taken over fully by the then Oyo state government which also abolished the boarding system.

Kiriji Memorial College is one of the oldest secondary schools in Nigeria ranking impressive 75th out of thousands of schools in the country.

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