Governing Council says LAUTECH Won't Increase Tuition Fee

There have been widespread rumors that LAUTECH is going to increase its tuition fees once it resumes. But recently, a member of the newly inaugurated governing council, Chief Babajide Bewaji, has said "there is no truth in the rumour."

In an interview with The Nation, Bewaji, who is also who is the national president of LAUTECH Alumni Association, said LAUTECH’s priority right now is "to begin a hitch-free academic session."

Concerning the modality for settling ASUU, he said the governors of Osun and Oyo states – Rauf Aregbesola and Senator Abiola Ajimobi – would pay three months each of the 12 months’ salary arrears owed lecturers, while the remaining six months will be restructured and paid "in no distant future."

But what is to say there won't be a repeat of what happened earlier this year when the management reached an agreement with ASUU and still did not fulfill it, leading to the present strike?

Well, Bewaji went ahead to say: “I want to promise that this time round, with the calibre of governing council members, led by former Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF), Prof. Dapo Afolabi, we will make our word, our bound.

“We have started negotiation with relevant unions of the university as well as other critical stakeholders.”

So far, ASUU has not publicly changed it stance regarding resumption.

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