The Governor of Oyo State , Senator Abiola Ajimobi , and his Osun State counterpart , Mr . Rauf Aregbesola , have lamented the non – resumption of academic activities at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso , Oyo State .
The state governors bared their minds during the submission of the report of the Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN ) – led panel , set up over the crisis rocking the university , at the Governor ’s Office , Ibadan , on Friday .
The panel was set up in October 2016 towards charting a fresh path for the institution, which had been experiencing funding crisis , a situation that led to the closure of the school for more than eight months .
Although the school was reopened by the management on January 27 , 2017 following the injection of about N 500m by the two owner states , the institution ’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has yet to return to classes , citing unresolved issues with the management .
Ajimobi said , “Oyo State that used to get N 5 .2 bn as monthly allocation now gets as low as N 2. 5bn and we have to pay salaries of workers and finance social infrastructure . How do we survive that without looking inwards ?
“ The reality on the ground requires that we look at different ways of doing things . There is need for repositioning the university , especially on the structure . The non – resumption of academic activities after all our efforts is worrying . LAUTECH should be the flagship institution of the South- West .”
Aregbesola also lamented the refusal of lecturers to return to classes , saying that the school’s crisis was regrettable, but inevitable due to a sharp drop in the states ’ financial powers as caused by dwindling oil fortunes .
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