Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party candidate in the 2023 governorship election in Lagos State, has decried the dilapidated structures of schools in the state.
Gbadebo, in a statement on his X handle on Sunday, noted that Lagos State “has the funds to make every school in Lagos a high-quality environment.”
Gbadebo’s statement comes on the heels of trends of dilapidated school buildings in Lagos State, which have gone viral on social media.
Reacting to the trends, he lamented the growing number of out-of-school children, which, according to him, is a result of the bad education policies and the harsh learning environment in the state.
His statement reads, “Politics aside, the #TinubuLagosSchoolSeries
and #TinubuLagosRoadSeries makes me so sad, and it shows how much work we have to do. I know the state has the funds to make every school in Lagos a high-quality environment.
“The strain on parents to pay huge private school fees for their children to get a decent education is unsustainable and leaves many families without discretionary income, which in itself slows consumption and, by extension, slows the economy.
“The strain on our society of out-of-school children that are raised by the streets, our brothers and sons, that should be in school learning how to be productive. Yet huge IGR goes hand in hand with huge debt. Lagosians deserve so much more.”
