BY DAUD OLATUNJI

ABEOKUTA-The Chairman of Yoruba Education Trust Fund, Senator Olabiyi Durojaye has pledged to use the trust fund to resuscitate the dwindling educational system in the Yoruba race.

Durojaye said this would be done by re-organising the school curriculum and providing incentives in schools.

He spoke yesterday in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital during a visit to of Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, adding the fund was meant to intervene by working with state governments in the Yoruba states for the development of Yoruba education system.

He called on governor Amosun to support the trust fund aimed at bringing back the lost glory of education in the South-West.

Welcoming him to his office, Amosun expressed his readiness to support the policies and programmes that would protect the core values of education system of Yoruba race.

He further stressed that, the present administration in the state would support and identify with genuine programmes that would bring back the glory of education in the South West.

While lamenting the decay in education system in the country, the state governor expressed disappointment that an average citizen have access to free education, saying that, the core values in the educational sector inherited from the Awolowo free and qualitative system of education had been detected.

He noted that education is a veritable weapon for development, adding that any responsible government will not toy with the future of its children to ensure meaningful development.

Senator Amosun while thanking the Chairman of the trust fund and his team for their initiative and vision, he assured them that his government will rise up to the challenges at keeping the dream alive.