Osun State House of Assmbly has said the state would not let go, its joint ownership of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) after it has invested hundreds of billions of naira into the institution.

The Chairman, House Committee on Education, Folorunsho Bamisayemi made the declaration on Wednesday at a press conference to address the issues of the joint ownership crisis of LAUTECH.

The Assembly, which blamed the people of Ogbomosho Community, the host town of the university for fuelling the crisis, said, "we honestly want to believe that the unconscionable attempt to take over the ownership of LAUTECH by every means possible is being orchestrated by only the Ogbomoso Community which erroneously think that it owns the college but not the entire good people of the two state".

Recalling that the crisis was started by the past administration in Oyo State under Adebayo Alao-Akala, an indigene of Ogbomosho in 2010, he said, the attempt was challenged in court and the Supreme Court in a judgment delivered on 26th of March, 2012 declared that the university was and would always be jointly owned by Oyo and Osun states.

According to him, it would therefore be illegal and become a contempt of court for Oyo state alone to unilaterally lay claim to sole ownership of the institution without the concurrence of Osun as a joint partner.

He said the sustainance of hostility after the government of Oyo has failed in court and tied it to Osun’s inability to meet its obligations due to the economic crisis was inhuman, especially, when Oyo has also been defaulting from meeting its financial obligations to the institution.

"Osun has fully, consistently and timeously met her obligations to LAUTECH over the last 25 years out of the 25 years of the university's existence. Inability to pay over the last one year was due to national economic problem which equally affects Oyo State.

"In 2010 when the University needed the partners (Osun and Oyo) to inject N900 million each for the payment of monetization and personal allowances of workers, it was only Osun that paid her own share of it, while Oyo has not paid her own share till date.

"The statue setting up the University recognises only one Teaching Hospital and situates it in Osogbo. Oyo State has consistently refused to contribute a Kobo to the sustenance of this Teaching Hospital since the Alao-Akala government set up the illegal Teaching Hospital at Ogbomoso and Osun singularly maintains this facility with a monthly N200 Million.

"The State of Osun has invested close to N2 Billion on Capital projects in the Teaching Hospital while Oyo State was busy investing in a parallel, but illegal Teaching Hospital unknown to the law that established the University.

"It is obscene and perfidious, effort by Ogbomoso Community to unilaterally take over LAUTECH and push Osun State out of the joint ownership after investing equally in the project for almost 26 years", Bamisayemi said.

Noting that the Osun government has kept quiet in the spirit of brotherliness and pan Yoruba nationalism, despite being treated by Oyo government as a junior partner in a joint ownership where the same amount of subvention is being contributed by the two states for the past 26 years, he said such investment would not be allowed to go into extinction.

He also added that there were some infractions which ordinarily the Osun government should have protested but accepted calmly in the spirit of one Yoruba nation and regional integration.

"Seven and a half faculties of the university are located in Ogbomoso while only a quarter (some say half) of a faculty is located in Osogbo, State of Osun. In spite of this obvious lopsidedness we still contribute equal amount as partners and joint owners.

"The postgraduate school, the pre-degree centre, Part-time programme and centre for distance learning are all sited in Ogbomoso. The staff ratio is 1100 for Oyo state to 610 for Osun state. 16 TETFUND need assessment projects are in Ogbomoso campus with none in Osogbo", he emphasised.

Also speaking, the Deputy Speaker, Honourable Akintunde Adegboye said, the people of Ogbomoso and their supporters in Oyo state government were obviously mistaking the maturity of Osun government for weakness and foolishness, saying, "they will soon realise that it is not so".

He said the state Assembly was not folding its arms on the joint ownership tussle but decided to tarry on the matter in line with the spirit of brotherliness and Omoluabi ethos, saying, Osun would not let go the joint property.

He appealed to the Soun Ogbomosho and traditional rulers in Yorubaland to intervene and call those fanning the ember of discord into order.

The immediate past Attorney-General of Osun, Barrister Wale Afolabi who was part of the briefing, said any action taking by the Oyo government to unilaterally arrogate the ownership of LAUTECH to itself was null and void in the face of the law in line with the Supreme Court judgement on the matter.

He said, for any of the two states to take up the sole ownership of the institution, it must be with concurrence of the other state.

Also, the former Attorney-General under Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola administration in Osun, Mr Niyi Owolade, said, though there was a Memorandum of Understanding between Oyo and Osun on the splitting of LAUTECH, but with conditions which Oyo government has not met and could not meet.

Part of the conditions he said, was the fact that if there was going to be any division, Osun must be paid its share of the university within 30 days and moratorium of ten years must be given for the sake of students and staff of the institution.

http://fastnews.com.ng/lautech-we-ll-not-let-go-our-joint-property-osun-assembly/

Watching closely

Hmmmmm this is serious oooo!


Keeping these children home for the past 4months

God will judge all of you

Osun state should let go of lautech and face it's own university

E no go beta for all this politicians. Abi wat are they saying sef Since june! Well, most of them neva pass thru uni. Awon oloriburuku

Our national assets are our birthright. So we want to sell the because we are hungry in 2016. Posterity will cause the graves of this present leaders if they do so

how can two states co-manage a university. rubbish.

ademusiwa12:
Osun state should let go of lautech and face it's own university

Musiwa has made a lot of sense here o!

jogsman01:
E no go beta for all this politicians. Abi wat are they saying sef Since june! Well, most of them neva pass thru uni. Awon oloriburuku

Lol. It is well chief

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When you know ushow can't fund a joint business anymore and not ready to show commitments either, I think the best thing to do is let go off it so that the person who can fund it continue.
I was a victim of this stupid ownership tussle btw the two states and I know the trauma it caused me when my medical school years became unending make us spend extra unplanned years in school.
Osun should simply give way if they know they are not ready to be committed to the Lautech venture instead of wanting to kill the once great school,indirectly killing the hopes of several innocent students.
If only we were in the days of instant judgement,the wrath of those students would have provoked thunder to strike anybody playing politics with their future.
Osun,kindly give way if joint business no pay you!

In 2011 the issue of this institution was one of the campaign promises of APC in Oyo State. APC said the crisis rocking the institution would be resolved once the party is voted in, because APC is in charge in Osun state. So till date, nothing has changed?

This joint ownership wont work. Imagine, some faculties are in Oyo state, while others are in Osun state, somehow to me. When Delta State was carved out from the then Bendel state, that put an end to Bendel State University.

Una dey try

kill

Useless govt, when you can't maintain what you have nko?
They're just like a jobless man living in his father's doing all he can to hold on to his priceless Gf when a rich man is wooing her.
She has made up her mind, her heart is with the rich man, keep ur PDA for the soap operas. What is love without money?

ademusiwa12:
Osun state should let go of lautech and face it's own university

You mean after they have invested so much in LAUTECH?

that's why you haven't paid workers for 13 months

Awon were!

Osun should just let go...to avoid bn blamed for this rubbish.


It would make no difference if Oyo State solely owned it! Osun is owing and Oyo is owing(14 & 8 months respectively). We all know how heavily Oyo State is owing her primary and secondary school teachers just like Osun State. So WTF!

#ReOpenLAUTECH

Whrn your mates that entered school before you are ready a level ahead of you...... Oau has gone back. UI has gone back, funaab that met us at home are resuming on monday, and our parent states are still here owing workers and fighting for ownarship...... Who osun epp, who oyo epp? Two APC states that cant manage a common university ??.??.?

Osun state should just please leave LAUTECH for us, so that the school can move forward

Those people don take weed

achieverme:

You mean after they have invested so much in LAUTECH?

Pls what av they invested?

akaytos:






Pls what av they invested?

Only a dull head will ask this kind of question. Go ask lautech management how their school operates, then you won't need to be asking unreasonable questions and making disgusting comments.

This people are crazy o, pay salary de no gree, and still de don't want to let go, Osun already has state university, I just pity their indegenes in Lautech because trust me de go hear

All of you screaming Osun should let go of the institution should have a rethink. What will happen to the staffs who are from Osun state, who have been part of the success story for over 25 years and the massive investments?

Obviously, the Ogbomoso community is solely responsible for this brouhaha. Have you heard anyone form Ibadan, Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa fanning the ember of disengagement? They (Akala people) have been barbaric in their approach, imagine beating up the Bursar because he is from Osun.

They should come and solve this diplomatically and not resolve to pushing out the joint owner with reckless abandon

Oyo state sud just stop dis holier Dan thou attitude,oyo state is equally owing 8 months arrears,so they are as guilty as osun state owing 14 months salary,for me,d joint ownership is still d best option,oyo state is equally cash trapped, so where do dey hope to get d funds required for d running of d sch.let d 2 state call a stakeholders meeting,and look 4 ways to drive d university forward.stop d dirty politics.#reopenlautech

After reading this letter it's clear the message osun st. Is tryna pass along


Pay us off or forget about sole ownership

It's a perfectly sane position

Well it's funny cos none of the institution in Osun state is having salary payments issue.
Moreover i was told if the oyo state end up solely owning lautech, the lautech teaching hospital ownership will move to Osun state because a state university and state hospital can't be in same state or vicinity.

Well I stand to be corrected.

GREAT LAUTECH.

How I miss Ogbomosho at large

The only solution is lautech to be splitted into 2. That is the only way out.

Oyo state (or shld I say Ogbomoso) is to blame here. I'm not disputing that Osun owes 6 months deficit, comparing with Oyo but the dissolution of the joint venture shld be the sensible way to go, and not barbarism. Oyo shld pay off Osun if they want them out.. ..Simple

since there is a divorce clause in the contract, make oyo fulfil the terms and conditions, and stop this holier than thou attitude. Are they trying to say osun should drop ownership because they cant fulfil obligation due to the economy which oyo too is facing.
pay up the value of osun stake within 30days, then maintain the status of the ratio for 10years in terms of intake in any form that affect both state, if you cant do that, abeg stfu