Ogun conducts integrity tests on school structures after classrooms collapse

The Ogun State government has constituted a committee to conduct integrity tests on school buildings across the state.

This was after a one-storey building with 10 classrooms collapsed at Agbado District Comprehensive High School in Ifo Local Government Area of the state.

It was gathered that the building collapsed after a heavy downpour on Saturday.

The structure, our correspondent learnt, was donated by a former senator as a constituency project.

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Locals said pupils and teachers would have been affected if the structure had collapsed during school hours.

A resident of the community, Kolawole Adelani, described the collapse as “a long-overdue catastrophe waiting to happen.”

Speaking during the inspection of the school, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, said Governor Dapo Abiodun had earlier directed that a committee be put in place to cater for school maintenance and rehabilitation.

Arigbabu said the committee would quickly move around the schools across the state to carefully evaluate the viability of existing structures to ascertain the possibility of usage alongside the newly rehabilitated and constructed ones.

The principal, Agbado District Comprehensive High School, Junior, Ayodeji Ogunleye, applauded the delegation for the quick response, promising to do all within their capacity to maintain school infrastructure.