The Osun State Government has dismissed a report published by a national daily (not PUNCH) purporting that the state has the highest number of out-of-school children in the South-West, describing it as misleading.
A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Adekilekun Jimoh, and obtained in Osogbo on Saturday, said the report wrongly claimed Osun had 297,000 out-of-school children.
The Permanent Secretary also said the report attributed the figure to a recently concluded media dialogue organised by the ministry in collaboration with UNICEF and held in Ede.
Jimoh said that at no point during the event was 297,000 presented as the number of out-of-school children in Osun State.
“We wish to clarify that at no point during the recently concluded media dialogue organised by the Osun State Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNICEF was the figure of 297,000 presented as the number of out-of-school children in Osun State.
