Ogun to reduce number of tertiary institutions

The Ogun State government on Wednesday gave an indication of its intention to reduce the number of its tertiary institutions, as it expressed worry over what was described as the proliferation of state-owned higher education institutions.

It would be recalled that the immediate past administration led by Gbenga Daniel had established six tertiary institutions in addition to the existing four in the state, bringing the total number to 10.
The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Olusegun Odubela hinted at a reduction while addressing journalists at his Oke-Mosan office, in Abeokuta, the state capital. He said "as a state, we believe that this number is huge, but we don't want a situation where we will take a decision without bringing in experts who will look at it and then recommend."

He explained that the newly inaugurated panel of visitation and fact-finding is set to carefully look into the issues.
"They will look at it, look at the reasons why those schools were set up. Are they actually meeting those needs? Do we have good schools? We don't want to sit as a government and take a decision without bringing in proper professionals who will look into it and then recommend to us and that is what we have done," said Mr Odubela.


Following due process
On the controversial return of schools to missions, the commissioner condemned the action of Mr Daniel's administration, which, according to him, did not follow due process.
"At the time the past administration would get that MoU where they agreed to handover those schools, they were not considering the law which is still in existence. That law has not been amended, it has not been repealed and an MOU cannot supersede a law. It was not properly done and that MoU, to me, cannot withstand the position of the law," Mr Odubela said. "Secondly, we discovered that the past administration did not actually take a lot of things into consideration. If you just agree with the way they have done, almost about 30,000 of our students will be roaming the streets because they will not be able to pay those fees that will be charged by those missionary schools."

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