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A STATEMENT supposedly released by LAUTECH’s senior staff association on the current salary payment crisis has been making on social media. Though it’s a lot to unpack (and appear to be directed primarily at Osun state government), it sheds some light on how the crisis has unfolded so far. See the document here.
Here are some key takeaways from the statement:
- “… the arrangement has been that Oyo pays between January and June while Osun takes over the payment from July to December of every year.”
- “… Wole Olaonipekun Visitation Panel [in 201] requested that each of the two owner States pay One billion naira each to offset part of their indebtedness to the university.
- “… in 2019, Oyo state paid regularly from January to March and fully restored its monthly subventions to the University in April, May and June.”
- “At the turn of July, Osun state paid a sum of three hundred million naira as subvention for the month of July salary. From thence, Osun state government is yet to pay its subventions in August and September … .”
ALSO, here’s a separate document also making rounds titled “Facts about LAUTECH university and Teaching hospitals in Oshogbo and Ogbomoso.”
- It was supposedly penned by the former provost of the teaching hospital in Ogbomoso as a response to “falsehood” being spread by “agents of Osun state government.”
MEANWHILE, the ‘office of the president’ of LAUTECH SUG sent a letter to the governor of Oyo state Oluwaseyi Makinde requesting for “restoration of full monthly subventions” and a “meeting to resolve the ownership crisis.”
- This is in addition to an ongoing petition seeking to get the signatures of 5,000 students to bring an end to the incessant ownership crisis.
