JOINT OWNERSHIP OF LAUTECH – MY STAKE…
I learnt on the job how Oyo State University of Technology (OSUTECH), Ogbomoso became a jointly owned educational institution when Osun division which had been part of Oyo State was carved out to become a State on its own. The University was eventually, renamed as Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso and it became jointly owned by Oyo and Osun States. Along the line, the Oyo State government under the administration of Christopher Alao Akala, an Ogbomoso man, no longer appreciated the bond, especially when Osun State eventually built and started to fund its newly built Osun State University. The then government of Oyo State attempted to severe from the unprofitable relationship so that University could be solely owned by Oyo state. The attempt was however vehemently opposed by successive governments and indigenes of Osun State who clinged on to consolidate on their exerted political and leadership influence on LAUTECH. The development did not matter much to the non-embarrassed, the less-suspecting, pretentious Oyo State government. It was however, an embarrassment especially, to some sons and daughters of Ogbomoso in whose community the University is privilegely, located and who are insiders enough to know the intrigues and the game plans involved.
The catastrophic development that progresses with LAUTECH has been so convenient for an Ibadan man; Ajimobi led administration of Oyo government, after Akala. And, of course, he could chuckle and grin at such a pre-arranged loss of grounds to Osun State by accepting the joint ownership of LAUTECH on political grounds. After all, the game plan is to re-insulate Ibadan economy at the expense of Ogbomoso by building in Ibadan a new Oyo state University of Technical Education. Something that Alao Akala could only dare on the ground that it would be sited on Ibadan land, or which House of Assembly of Oyo State would have approved that another University should not be situated in Ibadan... When this deed is perfected and finally done, LAUTECH could then be bastardized by both the Ibadan over-lordship in the governance of Oyo State and the Osun State plunderers. This can only be correctly read by the truly concerned Ogbomoso children who know and can understand the unfortunate socio-political curses that have for years bedeviled the economy of their town in the hands of Ibadan brotherhood manipulators. Do a mental exclusion of the presence of a truly functional LAUTECH from Ogbomoso and show what otherwise Oyo government has for the economy of the town on which it adjudicates on lands and taxes. The silent cries of our people with their tiny voices, efforts and struggle to get a needed fairness are what some misguided Osun indigene colleagues perceived wrongly as a ploy to get them evicted from their jobs in LAUTECH or dislodge them. Waoh! How universal can the University get, if that would be done...
I know my Osun friends well and their dexterity with talks, winding of facts, decoration of lies with assumptions, and their politics. And uh, they have their print and electronic media gurus and the noises; all these cooking the ‘books’ and stories about fights, wounds and hatred. Well, these fellows were there with us and for us in Ibadan; and back in their cradle, one can just expect more of their stocks in trade.

NON AND LATE PAYMENT OF WORKERS SALARIES

Non and late payment of workers salaries that are currently being experienced in LAUTECH is not unusual. Governments at Federal or State levels do it and their workers take it lightly and calmly in the best interest of the public, and now they are used to it. For us at LAUTECH, owner-governments’ commitment to prompt payment of workers salaries, release of fund by the government of the bionic clingers as payment for arrears of salaries and benefits, release of capital grants for the University’s developments should be the sure proof of why the fight to be glued. Doing so would show that not only do they value education, they even care so much about LAUTECH and its campus. CREDITS TO AKIN ODESOLA

I just dont understand what the op means.


Where are you from?