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During the administration of Rauf Aregbesola in Osun State, the government awarded the construction of 3000-student capacity steel schools, one each in Ilesa, Osogbo and Iwo, to Slava Yeditepe Projects Limited.
When completed, former President Muhammadu Buhari jetted to the state on September 1, 2016, to commission the one in Osogbo, named Osogbo Government High School. The second one built in Ilesa also came to fruition before Aregbesola’s tenure as governor ended in 2018. However, that of Iwo remains a spectacle, sitting comfortably on a bushy 10,000 square metres of land on the premises of Iwo Grammar School, along Araromi road in the town.
2 BILION NAIRA WASTING AWAY
Like the two completed structures in Osogbo and Ilesa, the massive uncompleted school, made of prefabricated light gauge steels, in Iwo has 72 classrooms and a large hall.
Other features of the school are utility storage, office spaces, storage for documents, eight restrooms (four each for males and females), sporting facilities, a borehole, standalone transformer and firefighting devices.
According to the delivery timeline, the contractor was expected to complete the construction in May 2017. But that never happened. The administration of Adegboyega Oyetola, the governor who succeeded Aregbesola, appeared to have also dragged its feet on the project, as no visible move was made to make the facility usable.
