Members of the Academic Staff Union
of Universities, ASUU, from different zones of the country on Friday thronged
to Osogbo, the Osun State capital, to protest what they called poor funding and
abysmal welfare of staff of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH).
The union, during the protest,
took a swipe at the governments of Osun and Oyo, the dual owners of the
university, for abandoning their responsibilities to the institution, thereby
making academic activities highly unstable.
Displaying placards with various
inscriptions such as: “Oyo/Osun, Don’t Play Politics with the Lives of Our
Students, “Aregbesola/Ajimobi, Do Not Kill the Best State University in
Nigeria, “Ajimobi and Aregbesola Haba! Must LAUTECH Die?,” the protesters
commenced procession from Freedom park, and terminated it at Government
secretariat, Abere.
Speaking with newsmen at the NUJ
Correspondents’ chapel, Osogbo, the coordinator of Akure zone of ASUU, Prof.
Alex Odiyi, said that the lackadaisical posture of the owner states has created
serious problem for the institution.
He added that the protest was
simultaneously going on in Osun and Oyo to compel the two states to do the
needful and be alive to their responsibilities.
Odiyi accused both Governor Rauf
Aregbesola of Osun, and his Oyo counterpart, Abiola Ajimobi, of reneging on the
Memorandum of Agreement signed with the union before the last strike was called
off.
According to him, “It is
unfortunate that the two state Governors have allowed things to degenerate to
this level.
“The people who are at the helms
of affairs acquired former education free of charge. Many of them emerged
Governors and became very wasteful at the expense of the people.”
In his remarks, the Chairperson
of ASUU at UNIBEN, Prof. Iyasele decried alleged commercialization of
university education across the country, while the Branch Secretary of ASUU in
LAUTECH, Comrade Toyin Abegunrin, expressed displeasure over the general
neglect of education in Nigeria.
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