Is This LAUTECH Of Our Dream ?

The Ladoke Akintola University Of Technology (LAUTECH), has been on strike since August. Both Academic staff union and the Non academic staff had been on internal strike before the National Asuu strike due to unpaid salaries. 

As I write, the school massive structures have been overtaken by weeds, and chances are that reptiles and other dangerous animals may have found a haven in the school, there are reports that some students are already planning to procure another JAMB forms to secure fresh admission to some other schools.

Ever since the founding of the school, there has not been a time like this when it was involved in protracted closure such that goats and other dangerous animals are the one visiting the senate building. 

I Wake up everyday to the nightmarish quagmire of hopelessness as a result of lack of thought of those at the helms of affair in Osun and Oyo states, whose children are far tucked away in the comfort zone of ivy league education in Western capitals. Our disquiet is their own soothing balm, they relish our compromised education as they gaze lovingly at the opulent education of their own children abroad.

The pains and sadness that creeps in is fueled and given flesh by the tortured thought of a blissful future that beckons teasingly at other undergraduates in private institutions. 

Today, many LAUTECH graduates are due for service and can’t compete for juicy employment. Some in NYSC service are either over age or in their late thirties. Unlike graduates from private institutions who are between 20-24 age. 

Books have forgotten the classes, tables and chairs in lecture theaters are rust,  bushes now find leisure, whilst goats and other animals are now the students’ representatives on campus. 

Two head is better than one they say, but in LAUTECH case, two heads is not helping, one head seems to be more concerned than the other. 

Students pay tuition fee but get less or nothing in return, yet the school fees is increased unabatedly twice in a year. The students brain is getting drain, no encouragement, some of them are now interested in making money through illicit and fraudulent ways. 

Who will rescue the institution in this coming election ? 

Oyedeji Ahmed ( LMP ) is a graduate of LAUTECH