Students: Cancel LAUTECH as JAMB Centre Unless Govt Answers us
On Monday morning, Students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, prevented the 2017 University Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) to take place in the varsity.
Candidates posted to the varsity for the exam could not gain entrance to the school’s premises.
The underground students were said to have mobilised themselves before the candidates’ arrival, blocking every entrance to the school. effectively denying the candidates entry.
“The government handled the matter with levity and that led to the eight months strike. We have been on a session for a year and five months now. The money the government gave to the school only had a placebo effect, it could not solve the issue.
“NAAT, NASU, SSANU and ASUU have now adopted a new style. Mondays and Tuesdays, they will work and stay away from work for the rest of the week since the government is not paying them.
“If we are not progressing, we can also take our own step by blocking the school. That is how it is going to be for the rest of this week. No JAMB, cancel LAUTECH as a JAMB centre unless they answer us.”
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), LAUTECH chapter, had recently vowed to stop working unless paid their salary arrears.
They lecturers said that the governments of Oyo and Osun had failed to meet up with the demands of the union.
