The
Lagos State Government says the challenges in the Lagos State University
are caused by the various unions in the institution, as well as some of
the students.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on
Education, Chief Fatai Olukoga, on Tuesday during an annual briefing of
the Ministry of Education in Alausa, Ikeja, said unions in the
university had overbearing attitudes, which had continued to fuel the
crisis in the school.
Olukoga spoke after the Commissioner for
Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, had briefed journalists on the
activities of the ministry.
Olukoja said lecturers, students and
management of the university needed to sit together, reason and
compromised on some of their stands.
He added that unless such was done, the school would not be reopened.
He said, “LASU was established by law, which gave the management and the governing council power to run the university. When there is a problem that they cannot resolve, that is when it is brought before the governor.
“The crisis in LASU is that the
employees want to dictate to their employer to sack somebody, which is
wrong. When they said they want the Vice-Chancellor sacked, we said,
‘Look, it is wrong for you to say that we should send the VC away’.
“Imagine if you run a company and
somebody you employed wakes up one day and says you should sack the MD. I
think we need to have a rethink.
“The problem of LASU is just the
overbearing attitude of the unions. The lecturers, the management and
the students really need to be talked to.”
On the PhD controversy in the school,
the special adviser said 17 out of the 19 affected candidates had been
screened and cleared, saying one of those who had yet to be cleared
refused to show up for screening.
He said, “About 17 people have been
cleared. One of the two remaining persons is the chairman of a union and
he refused to come for clearance.”
Earlier, Oladunjoye had said the government succeeded in the area of improved qualitative education.
Source: The PUNCH
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