The students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho (LAUTECH) is set to begin a mass protest across Oyo and Osun states on Monday, January 9 over the strike embarked on by the workers of the institution which has lasted for over seven months.
The Acting Secretary General, Alliance of Nigerian Students against Neo-Liberal Attacks, Juwon Sanyaolu, disclosed this in a statement on Monday as he warned the government of the two states against increasing the tuition as part of the resolutions being considered in ending the strike.
Sanyaolu said: “The January 9 mass action is for the outright rejection of the imminent fee hike in LAUTECH and to call for adeqaute funding of the university, immediate re-opening of the campus and unconditional reinstatement of the Students Union of the school.
“The declaration of the date as a day of mass action against the aforementioned was a product of the congress of LAUTECH students which premised its conclusion of an imperative mass action on the need to mobilize Nigerian students, youths and activists against further attacks that would soon befall our entire tertiary institutions across the country.
“The fact is that fees hike has never resolved the challenges of under-funding in LAUTECH or any other tertiary institution. Rather, it has always deprived students from poor backgrounds access to affordable education. We therefore, maintain that it should under no circumstance be substituted for adequate funding of education,” he stated.
Sanyaolu, further call on parents and other stakeholders in the educational sector to avoid being made to face the problem of adequate funding of schools.
