Ondo State government has started local production of science materials, in order to provide affordable modern science equipment for schools in the state.
Education, Science and Technology Commissioner, Mr Femi Agagu who visited the workshop of the State Science Equipment Centre in Akure where the equipment are being produced, expressed satisfaction with the materials that were produced and ready for distribution.
He commended the Staff of the Centre who are from the Science Department of his ministry, saying government investment in the centre was not a waste considering their achievements.
He said the equipment would be distributed to schools on resumption as he admonished students who are the end users to make judicious use of the equipment.
Also speaking at the Skill Acquisition Centre where school cardigan, socks and muffler among others are being produced, the Commissioner said the government would strive to make the centre an internally generated revenue source for the state.
He charged youths in the state to take advantage of the Centre to learn skills that would not only make them self reliant but employers of labour in future.
In her speech, the Director, Ondo State Science Equipment Centre, Dr (Mrs) Oluwatoun Akinkuolie thanked Governor Akeredolu and the Commissioner for the financial encouragement the Centre received from the state government.
She said the products from the centre are of best quality compared to imported ones noting that the cost of producing locally was cheaper than the cost of importation.
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