Ladoke Akintola University of Technology student union government has given their lecturers 3 days to opt out of the ongoing ASUU strike.
ASUU had, on February 14, embarked on a four-week warning strike over the failure of the Federal Government to honour the 2009 agreements it reached with the union and the rot in universities. The union also extended the strike action by another eight weeks on March 14.
LAUTECH student union president Anuoluwa Adeboye and Public Relations Officer, Gabriel Michael mentioned that the institution had suffered a lot of setbacks as a result of the previous peculiar strikes embarked upon by the institution.
They added that the ongoing strike had also made the fresh graduates of the school to miss being mobilized for the National Youth Service Corps orientation programme in March.
The SUG has said that they had written to ASUU chapter of the institution for a dialogue as to reasons LAUTECH cant afford to embark on another strike but it fell on deaf ears.
They added that many LAUTECH graduate have missed posting of NYSC simply becauseof incessant strike that have crippled activities of the institution.
The statement read, “In light of this, if by now the leadership of ASUU LAUTECH can’t honour the open dialogue address from the Student Union between ASUU LAUTECH and LAUTECH students and they are claiming they are fighting for the Ladokites’ interest at the federal level, we are saying it is enough.
“We are giving the leadership of ASUU LAUTECH 72 hours to borrow a leaf from ASUU KWASU that wrote a special letter to the national ASUU based on the peculiarity of their institution and to opt out of this ongoing strike or else the Student Union will be left with no choice other than to see ASUU LAUTECH as a sabotage to the progress of LAUTECH and Ladokites due to their selfish interest.