Chief Whip of Osun State House of Assembly, Mr Tunde Olatunji has volunteered to teach Mathematics and Civic Education in public middle schools in his constituency.
Olatunji disclosed this on Monday while addressing students and teachers at the unveiling of his teaching plan at Anglican Middle School, Edun-Abon, Ife-North Local Government Area of the state.
The lawmaker said he would teach the two subjects for 2019/2020 academic session.
According to him, the desire to take up the teaching job is aimed at complementing teachers’ efforts and using his status to stimulate the students’ interest in the two “all-important subjects.”
Olatunji (APC-Ife-North), said the teaching programme, tagged, “Tunde Goes To Teach”, would hold every week across schools in his constituency and Osogbo, the state capital.
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“This voluntary teaching is an effort on my part to drive quality and functional education by imparting knowledge and skills that will make the students be useful to society.
“My choice of Mathematics and Civic Education is deliberate: my choice of Mathematics to stimulate the interest of young ones in this all-important subject often tagged as difficult.