LAUTECH AS A BARGAINING CHIP!

"History has proven human beings to be selfish, hostile, short sighted"

LAUTECH Ogbomoso was made the best state university and 3rd best in Nigeria due to the diligence and utmost priority accorded it by the Alao-Akala administration. Akala out of his ingenuity & love for his ancestral home, Ogbomoso established the ultra modern teaching hospital complex & the faculty of health sciences, all in Ogbomoso, and the hospital got accreditation from medical & dental council at the first visit of the accreditation & evaluation team.

When Osun couldn't fulfill its financial obligations again and Oyo assisted severally in this regard, (moreso Osun has established its own state owned university) opted for the sole ownership of the school by exploring the clause of reviewing the co-ownership after 20years if they so desired! Research showed no state in Nigeria can fund 2 state universities!! Akala was already at the supreme court for the separation; unfortunately, he was ousted in 2011, and this put an end to the separation process already at the final stage since modalities has been submitted at the supreme court.

A leader will identify a crisis fast ahead and proffer solutions before it becomes an emergency! The process was reversed by the Ajimobi/Aregbesola regimes and opted for an out of court settlement! Lautech fortune and glory started going down since then. Can a stop-gap once off donation by Engr. Seyi Makinde be equated with Akala's efforts listed above? NO! It can't. "There is nothing more equal than the equal treatment of the unequals!" Can Seyi's one time donation be equated to be more interested in Lautech than Akala, an indigene who established the teaching hospital & the faculty of health sciences, aside the effective funding that made Lautech becoming a model university in Nigeria? I know the truth is always a causality when history is being hurriedly written from many perspectives!

When it comes to comparative analysis on those that have helped Lautech, it is erroneously wrong and absurd to be comparing Seyi Makinde's donation to the enduring legacies of Akala in LAUTECH! Can Engr. Seyi Makinde with his cash donation be said "to be more catholic than pope!"- more passionate about LAUTECH than Akala with those listed above? How come the "erroneous passion and love" for Ogbomoso didn't make him donate an engineering buildings to Lautech like he did to UNILAG? His "assumed love" for LAUTECH didn't go beyond the money donation that some myopic minded people are now comparing with Akala's efforts.

LAUTECH problems have been itemized to include funding to take care of infrastructural decay & shortages, laboratory equipment and consumables, more facilities, workers and students welfare, and accreditation of other courses, employment of more capable hands and for teaching and research Teaching hospital to become fully functional.

Immediate Solutions include:

*Tetfund & NEEDS from Fed Min of Education

*Fed Min of Health and the SDGs in the office of the SGF will take over the effective funding to make the teaching hospital fully functional;

*Release of fund for the road rehab/construction problems in Ogbomoso through FERMA and Works Ministry;

The water projects will be completed through the Fed Min of Water Resources.

All these will be done effectively through the FG interventions as they are too capital Intensive which is certainly beyond the reach of the state govt with its present financial status. Can these be done with the state fund alone in the present time? Or does anyone expect Engr. Seyi Makinde to use his personal money to do all these?

An opposition state can't benefit such from the government at the centre if they are from different political parties. If Akala's "little" contribution to the land of Ogbomoso is monumental and legendary while in government, how come his sense of judgement, character, integrity is now is being questioned and doubted on the alter of politics? If he didn't disappoint Ogbomoso then, how come an outsider's view is considered and believed ahead of one of their good ambassadors, Alao-Akala? Ogbomoso must not sacrifice its greatness and progress for political expediency!

The opportunity beckons on Ogbomoso again to use what they have to make the sun of Ogbomoso rise and shine again!
"Omo eni e okin s'edi bebere ,ka fi ileke sidi Omo elomi!"

Engr. Remi Adepoju

So what’s the point of all this? Is Akala still contesting? Or has OP been living under a rock?