Students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH),
Ogbomoso have appreciated the commitment of the Oyo State Government
towards resolving the crisis rocking the institution.
They particularly commended Governor Seyi Makinde, for taking time off
his busy schedule to visit the University on Tuesday, and his promise
to release a grant of N500 million to the authorities of the
University and the trade unions amid fresh threats to shut down the
institution over unpaid salary arrears.
The students, in a statement at the weekend signed by their spokesman,
Abiodun Oluwaseun aka Laurel, maintained that following the Governor’s
visit to the University and his promise to release the N500 million
grant, the University “is set to resume, with staff members smiling
again ahead of the festive period.”
This is just as the students hailed the Governor for fulfilling his
electioneering promise to increase the budgetary allocation until it
matches the UNESCO suggestion for education budget, noting that the
22.37 per cent allocation to education in the 2020 Budget proposal
laid before the House of Assembly was not only historical but also a
solid foundation for the transformation of the education sector.
Governor Makinde had, during the visit disclosed that Oyo State
Government would release the sum of N500 million to the institution on
the condition that the University management and the unions would come
up with a modality for disbursement in a manner that will satisfy all
parties.
The statement read: “One ought to give thanks when favoured with
kindness; and this is in no other reason than the kindness of our
amiable Governor, the people’s man, our God sent, His Excellency,
Engr. Seyi Makinde, for sparing time out of his busy schedules to
attend to the cries of students and staffs of our institution, Ladoke
Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso.
“It was not just a visit, it was a remarkable one and a date with
destiny, a record-making one, as it is the first of its kind that a
sitting Governor would physically appear in the institution after his
election and was received by all and sundry.
“As if it were not enough to just visit, the Governor pledged the sum
of N500 million to tidy all that is necessary for the school to resume
pending the time Oyo State finds a lasting solution to the crisis
rocking the institution.”
