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Real Issue With LAUTECH, Nigeria Education, ASUU President Reveals by Otunbalarry: 6:33pm On Aug 23, 2018 |
NEWS DIGEST – In a tell it all chat with The News Digest,
the national President of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Mr Biodun Ogunyemi has spoken extensively
about the crisis rocking Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology (LAUTECH) and Nigeria Education as a
whole.
The University don said the issue affecting Ladoke
Akintola University of Technology is not just limited to the
school alone but most Nigerian states.
He described what is happening as a political game been
played by both Oyo and Osun state government while
hitting at Nigerian governors for paying lip service to
education in the Country.
“The issue rocking Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology is not limited to the University alone,it is a
political game that has continued to engulf Nigeria
education. The governors when they need our votes will
promise to invest in education but they never fulfill their
promises, most of them refuse to drop any penny to
support the schools.
“Take Ladoke Akintola University of Technology for
instance, the Oyo state government went on to establish a
technical University and also Osun state government
created Osun state University. Let me even tell you that
the technical University Oyo state government created they
have been forcing local governments to support students
because they have made it beyond reach of masses.
“What the state government want is a University that will
be in their name and be their glory, the truth is Ladoke
Akintola University of Nigeria should be the luckiest with
two states owning it but both governors have refused to
be responsible, what can a Technical University in Oyo
state do that LAUTECH cannot do” he quipped.
On the solution to the crisis rocking Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology, he said ceding the University to
a state is the way forward.
“There was a time that the Federal government through
the National Universities commission tried to intervene by
asking that the University should be owned by one state ,
the commission visited the University and was ready to
go on but the owner states refused the gesture despite
their shortcomings, it is only when we have one state
responsible that we can talk of progress.”
“They set up an international audit team but failed to
release the report, they have kept telling people that
lecturers are corrupt but no one is seeing the report, let
them tell Oyo and Osun state citizens that they want
LAUTECH to die a Natural death” he said.
He lamented that staffs of the school have been working
for several months without salary or any pay.
“Most of the workers in LAUTECH have been working
without salaries, some for over ten months and the issue
is even if Ajimobi does not have his children in the
Country, this politicians only pay lip service to Education,
they do not really mean well, they have their kids out of
the country or if their kids are in Nigeria, they send them
to Private schools”.
On the plan of the Union to continue to fight poor funding
in the tertiary institutions, the ASUU President said:
“The Minister of Education promised us a meeting, if they
fail to call the meeting, we will take our decisions” he
said.
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology lecturers have
been protesting lack of proper funding and welfare. https://newsdigest.ng/news/2018/08/23/ASUU-president-reveals/ |
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