Lagos State Government through the Special Committee on Rehabilitation of Public Schools, SCRPS has commenced the regeneration of the Tolu Schools Complex in Ajegunle, Ajeromi- Ifelodun Local Government Area of the State.
Addressing a press conference, the Chairman of SCRPS, Hakeem Smith explained that in 2022, SCRPS rehabilitated two numbers of seventeen plus-one classroom blocks in the Tolu complex and this intervention exposed the state of disrepair of most of the school blocks and classroom inadequacy in the complex.
Smith said at the moment, thirty-six schools both Primary and Secondary within the Tolu Complex with a population of nineteen thousand, seven hundred and fourteen students and teachers.
According to him, for efficient management, and supervision and to ensure timely delivery, the project has been divided into six lots, while arrangements have been made to assuage issues where students will need to be temporarily relocated within the school complex.
Smith noted that to make Tolu Complex a state-of-the-art Education City, SCRPS is proposing the construction of an additional thirteen-fifteen to eighteen classroom blocks with offices and toilets, renovation of identified dilapidated classroom blocks, construction of a Health-care centre, fire service station, multi-purpose sports complex, access roads among others.
Blacktalker reports that the Tolu Schools Complex was established in 1981 by Lateef Kayode Jakande’s Administration. In propagating his Mass Education policy, the state government at that time reclaimed the subject parcel of land from the Lagos lagoon.
This was necessary due to the dense population of the area and the lack of suitable space for the establishment of public schools. The complex itself was in two parcels separated by Temidire Street covering an expanse of approximately 11.73 hectares. Parcel A covers 10.61 hectares while Parcel B measures 1.12 hectares.