Speaking at a reception held at the Ugbegun Grammar School, Governor Oshiomhole said the school will be rebuilt and renamed Festus Iyayi Memorial Grammar School.
He also said a water scheme would be constructed at Ugbegun and named after the late Festus Iyayi to remind the people of who he was and what he fought for.
Mr. Oshiomhole said: “some of the things we can remember about the late Iyayi was his consistency, commitment and doggedness and he paid the ultimate sacrifice.
He lived and died in the struggle and therefore we can in truth say that the struggle was his life.
“We celebrate the fact that God used him and his colleagues to put education on national discourse."
“How do we remember him, how do we immortalise his name? When I visited his family house this morning, I said since Iyayi was also a contributor on how a worker can become the governor of Edo State, now that a worker is now the governor of the State, this community of Ugbegun, by next Monday I will deploy one of our industrial rigs to provide a water scheme which will be named as Festus Iyayi water scheme for the benefit of the people of this community.
“Iyayi struggled for the proper position of education and education is only about nations.
“I also want therefore that this school called Ugbegun secondary school beginning with the new budget which begins in January and by the special grace of God not later than February, we would have passed through all the processes and we will build this school to the new standard of Edo State, the school will be renamed Festus Iyayi Memorial Secondary School.
“That way, even after our death, the children yet unborn will know there was a man who was born to this community, who led national struggle, died in the struggle but his spirit and ideals never died, he said.
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