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How Selling Bread For 13 Years Prompted Makinde’s Drive For Free Education
Governor Seyi Makinde’s inclination declaration of free education flowed from his experience as a child that saw him sell bread for 13 years as a youngster.
Speaking during the 80th thanksgiving service organized for his mother last weekend, the governor narrated how as a child he sold bread at the gate of Adeoyo State hospital in Ibadan before becoming the Governor of Oyo State.
He said that it was education that saved him from that life of drudgery and hence his passion for the downtrodden in the society and the declaration of free education.
“For the first 13 years of my life, where we lived was not more than five minutes to where we are now. My mum was a Telephone Operator in the state secretariat. At Adeoyo State Hospital here, I and my brother Muyiwa also used to help her sell bread by the gate of Adeoyo State Hospital.
“What can propel a child who used to live some five minutes away from here [Yemetu] to become a Governor of Oyo state is education. And that is why we have declared that free and qualitative education has come to stay in Oyo state,” Makinde said.
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