2015: The signs for the PDP are ominous – Aregbesola Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, at the fourth edition of Ogbeni Till Daybreak, an interactive session with the people on radio, spoke about his achievements and the efforts of his administration to affect the lives of the people of the state. Excerpts from the session:- What are your expectations on the Opon Imo initiative which your government recently launched? It is to ensure that education is democratised. When we talk of democratisation of education, what we are saying is that never again will anybody be denied access to total learning by whatever reason. Wherever you are in this state, no matter how remote, education will be your birthright. And it is not just any wishy-washy education, it is total, comprehensive education. If you understand, as I do, that education means access to textbooks, best practice in tutorial, and whatever that will prepare students for their examinations, internal and external, then you will appreciate what I am saying. The 1.1kg tablet has whatever that you need for your foundation on education. That is the cardinal objective, but there are associated benefits. One, with Opo-Imo, we are guaranteeing for our children access to digital technology. It is also to ensure that from here, the heartland of the Yoruba nation, we can produce stars like Bill Gates.  Aregbesola There is an allegation that your son, Kabiru, was the one that handled the contract of Opon Imo. In 2000 when I asked my son to go and study medicine in Cuba, he didn’t reject the idea, but, when he got there, he refused to do medicine. He said he wanted to study informatic, the software aspect of the ICT and that was what he studied. After studying for five years, he went to London for further study on the same discipline. However, when the idea of Opon Imo came, Kabiru was not in the know, but, when our first attempt to do it failed, I was depressed. My son asked me what happened, I explained to him and that was how he came in. Then he was working with AMCON. He was the one God used to upload what we intended into Opon Imo and, up till now, he was not paid anything, even for the work he did and that is to tell you that he is not the contractor as being speculated. If we had wanted to use Opon Imo to acquire wealth, we could go and do it secretly somewhere and come to sell to government. The truth is that no government has ever done this, but we used all what we had to raise the bar of education in Osun, including my son and that is how we have the Tablet of Knowledge. It was Kabiru that told us that if we must use Android, we must look for an expert that will put the software on it and that is how we found two companies from America and Malaysia that did it.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:06:44 +0000
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