Osun State is Financially Distressed- Aregbesola

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has appealed to the striking lecturers of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Oyo State, to suspend their strike.

The governor lamented that the protracted industrial action could jeopardise the future of the students.

He, however, debunked insinuations that the governors of the two owner states – he and Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State are insensitive to the lecturers’ plight and the situation at the LAUTECH.

Gov Aregbesola

He insisted that both states, funding the institution, were financially distressed currently.  

He expressed disgust that while civil servants in the upper cadre of the civil service agreed to collect a fraction of their salaries, the LAUTECH lecturers refused to make sacrifice and pretended not to understand the poor financial situation of the two states.

“I am using this medium to appeal to the striking lecturers of LAUTECH to return to work in the interest of the students, their parents and guardians, whose future is being jeopardised. 

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“I urge them to reason along the same line of thought of the two owner states for a solution to be quickly found in solving the problem.

“It will be wrong for anybody to have the notion that the  governors are being insensitive towards the situation of the school.

“If the higher cadre of the civil service in Osun can agreed to collect a fraction of their salaries because of the harsh economic condition, I see no reason the LAUTECH lectures cannot reason with government,” Aregbesola said.

He said a proper audit of the LAUTECH accounts had become imperative as part of the solution to the crisis rocking the institution.

“I appeal to the lecturers to return to class while a proper audit of the school will be done to unravel the real problem of the university, so we solve it,” the governor furthered.