Osun special needs schools remain shut as funding crisis delays resumption

Special needs schools successful Osun State person remained closed to students pursuing a hold successful resumption attributed to backing constraints.

Also, the authorities authorities has said it lacked capable funds to supply boarding and feeding for the children successful the schools which are located successful Osogbo, Ilesa and Iwo.

The improvement has kept students of the Osun State Secondary School for Students with Special Needs, Osogbo, astatine location contempt the commencement of world activities crossed the state, raising concerns astir the continuity of acquisition for children who necessitate specialised learning support.

Earlier reports had highlighted challenges successful immoderate of the schools, including inadequate learning equipment, leaking roofs, mediocre hostel and toilet facilities, and a shortage of unit to enactment students requiring specialised attention.

The Commissioner for Education, Dipo Eluwole, disclosed the backing situation on Wednesday during an appraisal sojourn to the schoolhouse successful Osogbo, wherever helium explained that the authorities was incapable to warrant the students’ payment nether the prevailing fiscal circumstances.

“The non-resumption of the students is owed to the unavailability of funds to cater for their boarding and feeding pr...