According to an address by Premium Times, the acceptance of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) accept shut down the institution’s capital campus in Ogbomoso and aswell its medical academy in Osogbo over an accession in their charge fees.
It had been beforehand appearing how the academy at its 133rd administering board affair which captivated on Thursday, July 5 absitively that the backpack will yield aftereffect from the 2018 / 2019 bookish session.
The present 100 akin acceptance paid N120,000 for indigenes of Oyo and Ogun states and N150,000 for non-indigenes as allotment of the resolution of the academy afterward the university bang that lasted for months.
However, on Monday, the Academy implemented its accommodation in a mail beatific to all students. It said indigenes are now to pay N200,000 while non-indigenes are to pay N250,000 for the new affair which will arise on October 29.
The new fees are adjoined the antecedent N63,500 for indigenes and N72,500 for non-indigenes who are abiding students.
The agent of the university, Lekan Fadeyi, has back again banned to acknowledgment calls and argument letters beatific to his band on this development.
However, as aboriginal as 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Premium Times aggregate that the acceptance bound the institution’s campus gates in Osogbo and Ogbomoso and are now agitation with the hashtag, #OccupyLautech.
The cease has disrupted the breeze of cars and aswell ashore day to day activities in the school.
The Students’ Union President, Abiodun Oluwaseun, who batten with Premium Times in a blast account threatened that they will not abandon the aboideau unless the academy reverses its decision.
“We accept shut down a capital alley in the foreground of the Academy of bloom sciences and aswell the academy capital gate. No retreat, no surrender. We accept to action this and accomplish abiding that irregularities do not reign,”
he said.
Another apprentice leader, Fawole Isreal, who is analogous the beef in Osogbo told our contributor that the authorities accept erred by accretion the fees.
“During the alertness for Osun State election, the Chancellor of the varsity, Tinubu was boasting how alone he is richer than Osun State.
The aforementioned Tinubu has larboard LAUTECH to charcoal by befitting mum and not assuming anguish as an ancestor on the bearings of things. That is getting irresponsible.”
Other acceptance who reacted to the development as well tagged the accomplishing of the accommodation by the university administration as irresponsible.
“We can’t allow the money (fees). When workers are still angry for minimum wage, the academy came up with a hike,” a student, Aarinola Adegbite, said.
Another student, Kazeem Alli, told Premium Times that the university “is calling for addition strike” by the increase.
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