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Ajimobi, Aregbesola meet to resolve LAUTECH lingering crisis


The lingering crisis over the ownership of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, may soon be over as Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and his Osun State counterpart, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, met on Wednesday towards finding a lasting solution to it.

The meeting, which was also attended by their deputies, Chief Moses Alake Adeyemo (Oyo) and Chief Titi Laoye-Tomori (Osun), and other top officials of both states, took place at the State ExecuChambers of the Governor’s Office, Ibadan.

The two governors in a communiqué they signed and read by Ajimobi after a four-hour meeting, restated the irrevocable commitment of both states to the continued joint ownership of the institution.
Ajimobi then announced the setting up of a visitation panel headed by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Wole Olanipekun, as a follow-up to the meeting.

Other members of the panel are Hon. Rasheed Afolabi, Prof. Grace Akinola and Prof. Sola Fajana, representing Osun State; while Dr. Tunji Olaopa, Prof. Ayo Salami, Mr. Ayo Raji, and Permanent Secretary, Oyo State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Mrs. Aderonke Makanjuola (Secretary) were the representatives of Oyo State.

The panel was saddled with the task of reviewing the current terms of engagement between the two owner states with a view to consolidating the joint ownership, as well as to conduct an audit into the institution’s sources and application of funds.

The panel would also be expected to propose strategies for the overall improvement in the quality of education and service delivery in the institution.

He stated further that the two states agreed that comprehensive restructuring is inevitable in order to achieve national, regional and global reckoning by the institution, while he cautioned residents of the two states and other stakeholders to eschew any form of violence.

The communiqué also appealed to academic staff members currently on industrial action to resume academic activities while the owner states sought for amicable and sustainable solutions to the lingering crisis that had pitted indigenes of both states against one another.

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