LAUTECH Crisis – The Other Side – A
must read
Henry jex blog
Contrary to the opinions of a majority of
LAUTECH stakeholders and my stance in
previous open letters to the two official
visitors, which puts them at the center of
the blame game, this time, i have deemed it
fit to redirect the focus of our cameras to
the bloated leadership of the university
which is infested with economic and
financial fraud, corruption, true dereliction,
abuse of power and mismanagement of
resources.
If you look at great tertiary institutions, from
the Premier University to Great Ife, you will
see that most do not fail due inherent
instability but because of internal weakness,
corruption, embezzlement,
mismanagement, and a failure to manifest
the values and ideals they espouse. Truly,
these are characteristics that exist
everywhere to include tertiary institutions.
What successful leadership do is keep them
to a minimum because no one has ever
eliminated any of those stuffs. Today,
LAUTECH is dancing at the corridors of
shame and ridicule as a result of the
highlighted factors.
By the way, I would like to register my
displeasure for the show of impunity and
force by the Nigerian Police, during the
students’ most recent ‘protest for
resumption’. Well, those guys in black
uniforms are foremen and obey orders from
their superiors who often times sits in their
offices. Sad, instead of ‘answering their
over 200 days prayers’, the owners State
allowed the Nigerian Police to shoot tear
gas at protesting students, who deemed it
fit to express their displeasure for the
‘indefinite mid semester break’ and the
industrial action by various unions on the
campus, leaving some injured and arrested
a few among them. Well, this is not coming
as a surprise to me, something worse was
done to us when we staged a protest
demanding for tuition fee reversal among
others.
Before I take on the aforementioned factors,
let me give honor to whom honor is due, a
reputable role model and a vice chancellor
per excellence, Professor Sulaiman
Gbadegesin. It is on record that the
successes of the Sulaiman Kazeem led
Students’ Union Government were built on
the cordial relationship we had with the
university Senate under his leadership.
Sadly, it is practically impossible to exempt
this ‘foreman’ from the failed leadership of
the university, even with the face lift he has
given to the university campus,
administrative buildings and the lecture
theaters. Unfortunately, his leadership failed
to pivot the politics to a balance, end
economic and financial crimes and keep
mismanagement in the university to a
minimum.
Firstly, we all must agree that corruption
and mismanagement has reached an
unacceptable level in our beloved LAUTECH.
It has devoured the resources that could
have been devoted to the growth and
development of the university and impeded
the proper carrying out of the university
rules and penalize the honest and capable.
Yes, I am open to a broader discuss, if need
be but before that, allow me to drop a list of
the sources of internally generated revenues
of the university.
Think about this, LAUTECH has an average
of 30,000 undergraduate students, enrolls
an average of 4,000 Pre-degree students in
two folds a year, have an average of 15,000
Part-time registered students, have an
average of 10,000 Masters Degree
students, have an average of 10,000 MBA
students, have an average of 10,000 PGD
Students, students pays department and
faculty dues and buy study materials at
exorbitant amounts, LAUTECH is a
beneficiary of ETF, international donations
for research and educational development,
LAUTECH ventures, matriculation and
convocation dues, donations from
corporate bodies and individuals, to mention
a few pronounced ones. Now, you can
make your findings on how much each
student in each category pays for
acceptance fee and for tuition and then do
the mathematics.
However, in the event that the annual IGR is
not enough to meet the needs of the
university, then an amount far less than the
subvention from the owners States should
be perfectly enough. Please be reminded
that the previous meeting between the two
owners States was ended with a committee
constituted to review the finances of the
university.
This is in phase with my stance that the
visitors are also of the opinion that there is
corruption and mismanagement in the
university.
Yes, funding education is a social
responsibility of the government but it
gagging when the tertiary institution
becomes a complete liability and tends to
be portraying the owners in a bad manner.
Unfortunately, the ownership crises seem to
have overshadowed the infractions in the
leadership of the university. Sad, the said
ownership tussle is being fueled by some
self serving group of people who are hell
bent on robbing Esau of his inheritance for
Jacob. May posterity never forget us.
However, it is in the best interest of the
owners States and other stakeholders to be
sincere and to have a collaboration, in order
to get the students back in class.
Before I am found guilty of misinformation,
let me say that the owners States also failed
to checkmate the leadership of the
university and also in their moral and
financial responsibilities to the university. At
this juncture, the blame game has to stop
and a sustainable solution must be
proffered to the crises.
In conclusion, until the day the university
management and the owners States meet at
a round table to discuss how the students
can return to class in a wink, I am going to
do what I can, regardless of the cost to me,
to try to stop floating the future of the
students, the awful corruption and
mismanagement that is destroying my
beloved Alma-mata.
Yes, we must set aside our divides and set
the record straight because through the
inevitable mismanagement of resources and
goods at the disposal of the university, all
forms of collectivism would eventually lead
to tyranny and anarchy.
Thank you.
Sulaiman Kazeem
LAUTECH Alumnus.
Ajani Oluwatimilehin
must read
Henry jex blog
Contrary to the opinions of a majority of
LAUTECH stakeholders and my stance in
previous open letters to the two official
visitors, which puts them at the center of
the blame game, this time, i have deemed it
fit to redirect the focus of our cameras to
the bloated leadership of the university
which is infested with economic and
financial fraud, corruption, true dereliction,
abuse of power and mismanagement of
resources.
If you look at great tertiary institutions, from
the Premier University to Great Ife, you will
see that most do not fail due inherent
instability but because of internal weakness,
corruption, embezzlement,
mismanagement, and a failure to manifest
the values and ideals they espouse. Truly,
these are characteristics that exist
everywhere to include tertiary institutions.
What successful leadership do is keep them
to a minimum because no one has ever
eliminated any of those stuffs. Today,
LAUTECH is dancing at the corridors of
shame and ridicule as a result of the
highlighted factors.
By the way, I would like to register my
displeasure for the show of impunity and
force by the Nigerian Police, during the
students’ most recent ‘protest for
resumption’. Well, those guys in black
uniforms are foremen and obey orders from
their superiors who often times sits in their
offices. Sad, instead of ‘answering their
over 200 days prayers’, the owners State
allowed the Nigerian Police to shoot tear
gas at protesting students, who deemed it
fit to express their displeasure for the
‘indefinite mid semester break’ and the
industrial action by various unions on the
campus, leaving some injured and arrested
a few among them. Well, this is not coming
as a surprise to me, something worse was
done to us when we staged a protest
demanding for tuition fee reversal among
others.
Before I take on the aforementioned factors,
let me give honor to whom honor is due, a
reputable role model and a vice chancellor
per excellence, Professor Sulaiman
Gbadegesin. It is on record that the
successes of the Sulaiman Kazeem led
Students’ Union Government were built on
the cordial relationship we had with the
university Senate under his leadership.
Sadly, it is practically impossible to exempt
this ‘foreman’ from the failed leadership of
the university, even with the face lift he has
given to the university campus,
administrative buildings and the lecture
theaters. Unfortunately, his leadership failed
to pivot the politics to a balance, end
economic and financial crimes and keep
mismanagement in the university to a
minimum.
Firstly, we all must agree that corruption
and mismanagement has reached an
unacceptable level in our beloved LAUTECH.
It has devoured the resources that could
have been devoted to the growth and
development of the university and impeded
the proper carrying out of the university
rules and penalize the honest and capable.
Yes, I am open to a broader discuss, if need
be but before that, allow me to drop a list of
the sources of internally generated revenues
of the university.
Think about this, LAUTECH has an average
of 30,000 undergraduate students, enrolls
an average of 4,000 Pre-degree students in
two folds a year, have an average of 15,000
Part-time registered students, have an
average of 10,000 Masters Degree
students, have an average of 10,000 MBA
students, have an average of 10,000 PGD
Students, students pays department and
faculty dues and buy study materials at
exorbitant amounts, LAUTECH is a
beneficiary of ETF, international donations
for research and educational development,
LAUTECH ventures, matriculation and
convocation dues, donations from
corporate bodies and individuals, to mention
a few pronounced ones. Now, you can
make your findings on how much each
student in each category pays for
acceptance fee and for tuition and then do
the mathematics.
However, in the event that the annual IGR is
not enough to meet the needs of the
university, then an amount far less than the
subvention from the owners States should
be perfectly enough. Please be reminded
that the previous meeting between the two
owners States was ended with a committee
constituted to review the finances of the
university.
This is in phase with my stance that the
visitors are also of the opinion that there is
corruption and mismanagement in the
university.
Yes, funding education is a social
responsibility of the government but it
gagging when the tertiary institution
becomes a complete liability and tends to
be portraying the owners in a bad manner.
Unfortunately, the ownership crises seem to
have overshadowed the infractions in the
leadership of the university. Sad, the said
ownership tussle is being fueled by some
self serving group of people who are hell
bent on robbing Esau of his inheritance for
Jacob. May posterity never forget us.
However, it is in the best interest of the
owners States and other stakeholders to be
sincere and to have a collaboration, in order
to get the students back in class.
Before I am found guilty of misinformation,
let me say that the owners States also failed
to checkmate the leadership of the
university and also in their moral and
financial responsibilities to the university. At
this juncture, the blame game has to stop
and a sustainable solution must be
proffered to the crises.
In conclusion, until the day the university
management and the owners States meet at
a round table to discuss how the students
can return to class in a wink, I am going to
do what I can, regardless of the cost to me,
to try to stop floating the future of the
students, the awful corruption and
mismanagement that is destroying my
beloved Alma-mata.
Yes, we must set aside our divides and set
the record straight because through the
inevitable mismanagement of resources and
goods at the disposal of the university, all
forms of collectivism would eventually lead
to tyranny and anarchy.
Thank you.
Sulaiman Kazeem
LAUTECH Alumnus.
Ajani Oluwatimilehin
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