By Demola Akinyemi

ILORIN—KWARA  State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, weekend, assured that the government would return the missionary schools to the owners as being demanded by churches and Christian denominations after the law had been repealed in the state assembly.

The governor who spoke against the backdrop of protest by some Christians in Ilorin demanding that government should return their schools to them, explained that government would be contravening the law to return the schools without the law being passed. He said the government had reached out to the State Assembly seeking the repeal of the 2006 education law which would give the government power to return the schools to their owners.

Ahmed said “There are two types of schools; the first one is government-owned and the second one is privately owned but government-grant aided. The government-owned are straight-jacketed; the grant aided ones had entered into agreement with the government under Kwara State Education Law on how grant-aided schools are supposed to be run. Once you build a school either a faith-based, community-based, individuals or groups and you desire to seek for grant aiding by government, then it would be run under Kwara State Education Law on grant aiding of schools. And those schools give the proprietors limited power and give government limited power. This is how schools have been run so far.”