Osun Assembly to peg secondary school leaving age at 18

State of Osun House of assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Timothy Owoeye has said the state parliament under his leadership would enact a law to peg secondary school leaving age at eighteen years old.

Rt. Hon. Owoeye made this known yesterday while delivering his goodwill message at the Osun Youth Agenda High-Level Stakeholder’s Policy Dialogue organised by Kimpact Development Initiative, a non-governmental organization in the state with support from USAID, UKAid and NDI.

The Speaker who condemned the attitude of parents, said “the current practices of underage high school leavers without minimum required skills have contributed greatly to the rate of unemployment in the country.”

“We will hold a public hearing to get the view of parents, students and education stakeholders. The bill if passed into law would checkmate the growing trend of underage secondary school leavers which later put some of the students into societal and psychological problems after graduation. The bill will better our system, make our youth productive and make our society better.” he said

Owoeye who compared the system with that of the developed countries, said those countries have put legal measures in place to ensure that such early high school leavers were productively engaged for some time before they are permitted to further their studies.

He assured that Osun will be the first to enact such law and also promised to work with other state house of assemblies and the national assembly to ensure that the law is adopted nationally.
Osun.life