Ambode under pressure as students seek end to LASU crisis
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has been urged to immediately make efforts to resolve the lingering management crisis rocking the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo.
The National President of the National Union of Lagos State Students (NULASS), Daniju Sultan, made the call at a press briefing last weekend.
Sultan, who is currently a student of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), gave Ambode a two-week deadline.
“Though we are no longer in the age of destructive aluta, but we are pleading with Ambode to interfere in the issue and put a permanent end to the crisis within two weeks,” Sultan said.
The student leader argued that Obafunwa has done well and failure to reinstate him would not speak well of Ambode's government.
"Obafunwa has done credibly well and should be reinstated to office undisturbed.”
LASU has been in turmoil over differences between the Vice Chancellor of the institution, John Obafunwa, and the workers' unions; Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff of Universities (NASU) who accused him of inappropriate promotion of some staffs, victimization of its members, withdrawal of certificates of lecturers, abuse of due process by the university’s management.
The unions had demanded his sack, throwing the university into crisis after a physical confrontation.
A peace meeting in May had produced a communiqué, jointly signed by all the involved parties, indicating that all issued had been resolved.
The crisis however remains.
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