Old students sue Osun over schools’ reclassification policy

A GROUP of old students of St. Charles Secondary School, Osogbo, Osun State, has asked the court to stop Governor Rauf Aregbesola from including the school in the ongoing merger and reclassification in the state.

  The suit, filed by a current student and Chief Funsho Abiri, a 1975 graduate of the school respectively, is seeking the court’s declaration that the governor’s action is illegal, null and void.

  In a motion ex-parte filed by their counsel, O.G. Olujimi & Co., the claimants are asking the court for, among others, an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendants from reclassifying the school pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit on the matter.

  Also, in a motion on notice, they contended that the governor’s executive declaration violated the Education (National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions) Act CAP of 2004 and the National Secondary Education Commission et al Act CAP of 2004, both of which prescribes a national structure for secondary schools for the country and vest the power for restructuring them in the Minister of Education.

By Adeniyi Idowu Adunola