Sequel to the declaration of the National Universities Commission (NUC), of sole ownership of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), by Oyo State Government, the state government has also proposed the enactment of a new law that would be governing the institution.
This was disclosed by the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Oyelowo Oyewo, while briefing the Governor’s Office correspondents after the state’s 33rd executive council meeting.
Professor Oyewo said that the bill would be presented for implementation to the state’s House of Assembly, before Friday this week, adding that the new bill would be above all previous rules and laws of the university before the pronouncement of NUC.
He said: “At the 33rd Exco council meeting, we from the ministry of Justice presented a bill, consequent upon the pronouncement of NUC bringing to an end the joint ownership of LAUTECH between Osun and Oyo and vesting the sole ownership of LAUTECH in Oyo State.”
“This made it necessary for us to have the existing law which is the LAUTECH Law of 2020. We chose the other route of having the coexisting laws repealed and bringing in a new law to establish the LAUTECH University with sole ownership vested in Oyo State and to also discontinue the practices and rules that apply to LAUTECH in the joint ownership with Osun State.”
“We also made some consequential amendments to the composition of the council and more importantly empower the university to be a multi campus institution with campuses established in Oyo State as the need arises. The law will now be known as the LAUTECH law of 2020.”
Meanwhile,the state’s Commissioner for Education, Barrister Olasunkanmi Olaleye, has said that’s a sum of N658 million was approved for Oyo state for the production of 25,750 pair of students’ furniture for public secondary schools. a total of N446 million has been approved for the production of notebooks for students of public secondary schools in the state in January next year.
The education commissioner also informed that N169 million has been approved for the procurement of science equipment and materials for public secondary schools in Oyo State.
