Group Condemns Aregbesola’s Education Policy as UNIOSUN V.C Enmeshes in Financial Scandal
A civil group,the Civil societies Coalition for the Emancipation of
Osun State(CSCEOS) has called on the State governor, Mr. Rauf
Aregbesola to reverse the newly increased tuition fees of the State
University (UNIOSUN) back to the old tuition fees in the interest of
students and their parents and guardians.
The group also called on the three man investigative panel headed by
Professor of International Relations, Professor Solomon Akinboye set
up by the Governing Council of the institution to investigate its Vice
Chancellor, Professor Labode Popoola over an alleged mismanagement of
One Hundred and Six Million,Six Hundred and Seven Thousand, Five
Hundred and Ninety-Two naira (N106,607,592.00) to do the assignment
without fear or favour by ensuring that anybody found culpable of the
allegation be dealt with according to the lay down rules and
regulations.
According to the report, the institution’s Governing Council set up
the investigative panel as a result of a petition letter dated October
18, 2017 and signed by the Chairman and Acting Secretary of the
institution Non- Academic Staff Union(NASU), Comrade Isaiah Fayemi and
Comrade Dada Kunmi respectively and forwarded to the Pro-Chancellor
and Chairman of UNIOSUN Governing Council, Mallam Yusuff Olaolu Ali,
alleging that the Vice-Chancellor has been working round the clock to
discredit, silent and cripple the union so as to get away with this
gargantuan financial impropriety.
The group described the increment as anti-masses, saying that the new
fees policy in the University shown the insensitiveness of Rauf
Aregbesola led- State government to the plight of the parents and
guardians of the affected students who have been on the payment of
half salaries for over two years now in the State.
In a statement issued and signed by the CSCEOS’ Chairman, Comrade
Adeniyi,Alimi Sulaiman and copies were made available to newsmen on
Wednesday, urged the concerned citizens and stakeholders in the State
to resist the anti-masses policy of the present administration in the
State.
Besides, the group called on the genuine members of organized labour
and civil society organizations to wake up from their slumber by
saying “No” to new fees regime in UNIOSUN”.
It then called on the affected parents and guardians to resist the new
fees regime of the institution,insisting that amended 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has made it clear that
government at all level should ensure the citizens acquired education
to the higher level,noting that education should be the right of every
citizens and not privilege.
It further stressed that the ongoing anti-peoples policy on education
by Aregbesola’s government in the State has lead to the abysmal
failure of students in academic performance in the national
examination since inception of this government,urging Aregbeosola to
retrace its government step on the new fees regime at UNIOSUN
presently.
The group then stated that the jamboree surrounding the commissioning
of few classrooms of school built by Aregbesola’s administration,where
two-third of the State meager resources of the State were siphoned
into private purse of Aregbesola’s cronies in Lagos State, would not
make the people of the State to change their mind set on the present
administration as failed government.
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