Former chairman of Sunshine FC of Akure and one time acting Executive Secretary, Nigeria Football League (NPFL), Chief Kasali Obanoyen has spearheaded mobilising the old students of Methodist High School Owo to give back to their alma mater.
Obanoyen, who now resides in the United States of America, made the call in a statement made available to Blueprint ahead of the school’s 60th anniversary celebration scheduled for 2025.
The football guru lamented the deteriorating decay the school is currently witnessing and the need for urgent facelift to restore its lost glory among the elite of educational institution in the Owena state.
He described the clarion call as a challenge to “honor our educational roots and a call to duty” to all old students of the school to come out enmass and support the school in its time of need.
“In a way, we can’t separate our greatness from this school and that is why we have deemed it fit to give back to the school that makes us what we are today. Let us all fire from our old salvos of hope for a new MHSO.
He recalled the role the likes of Chief Adekunle Ajasin, Dele Abiodun, Diipo Akinwunmi and other old students played to make the school great.
He asked rhetorically, “have you done yours as a student, an old boy or girl? I ask all of us. I beg us all. I appeal to all. I challenge all”
The former NPFL chieftains pleaded “Give your time, money, blocks, cement, water , gravel , stone dust and iron rods – ghali gho na , shekun yoma, kosi toro, awa gba be, kosi kobo awa gba be” – search all areas, homes and farms, no amount of money we shall reject – to move MHSO forward.”
Obanoyen class of ’76 admonished that “the 60th anniversary needs all of us to shake body and fire the needed salvos now – tell your classmates, who are not IT users , those who are big time business folks in the villages and towns all over Africa and the world-to pay their dues and commit themselves to the ideals of MHOS.