You Have 7-Days To Return My Schools Or I occupy Your Office - 91-Year-Old Threatens Raji Fashola

 

91-year-old Madam Roseline Ololo has sent a 7-day ultimatum to the governor of Lagos State, Raji Fashola to return back to her the Metropolitan College and Isolo Secondary School which the Lagos State government took from her or she will be forced to permanently occupy the office of the governor.

 

Madam Ololo who made this threat through her counsel Malcolm Omirhobo said she will remain in Fashola’s office until her demands are meant. 

 

Madam Ololo and her late husband established the Metropolitan College in 1955 with an initial 19 students in Surulere, Lagos.  For expansion purposes, they moved to Ire- Akari, Isolo in 1974. 

 

In 1976, through the Education (Private Secondary Institutions Special Provisions) Law, the Military Government of Lagos State took over 48 Private Secondary Schools from their owners, including Metropolitan College.

In the process, Isolo Secondary School was carved out of Metropolitan College on the same expanse of land hosting the college.

 

However, in 2001, the administration of Bola Tinubu repealed the law and returned the said 48 private schools to their owners, but Metropolitan College was curiously not returned, a development that brought about a law suit.

 

In the suit, Akaix West Africa (The company under which Madam Ololo and her husband established the Metropolitan College) had sued the state government before the Lagos High Court to challenge the refusal of government to hand over the school to it.  

 

The government, however, indicated willingness to amicable settle the dispute, and the matter was referred to the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse, LMDC, for arbitration.

 

At the arbiration sitting, an agreement was not reached because the Lagos State Government insisted on retaining the Isolo Secondary School.  This Akaix West Africa contended insisting that the retention of part of the school was against government’s restructuring of the educational system of divesting and allowing the private sector to invest in the educational system so as to provide the conditions in which students can learn to the highest standard and prepare themselves to meet their future