The money is yours but we want to block leakages. In the course of our transparency narrative, we said to all the tertiary institutions that the government is investing so much, we want to know how much they are generating as Internal Revenue Generation (IGR). And we must also see how we can grant access to the majority of our people. There must be a level playing field for everybody. In reviewing them, we saw gaps here and there, so we say to ourselves, whatever we have to do, there must be equity, fairness, transparency, and justice. In the last two years, the first thing we did when we came was to review the extant laws. In the last two years you assumed office, what did you bring on board? What we are doing for them is to round up their capacity and invest so much in them in line with our team agenda, including LASUCOM. We can’t micromanage our governing councils. We said to the council within your powers implement and enforce the extant law. Then MOCPED has been very peaceful, except for one or two union issues. The council came back with recommendations, which we implemented. Mr Governor is sticking to the law and he said let the laws take its course while the other one that was not around for whatever reason, should be been determined by the council that came afterwards. March last year, they manhandled a principal officer of the college. The council has that power but for the union leader that has not been determined there for whatever reason, the council that would come afterwards, would take the case and determine the appropriate sanctioned or otherwise. I said for these two that have been determined it stays. It is when you hear from the other party that you can make a decision. The law requires that we must hear from the other party. I said because the chairman did not face the panel. When the report came, it came at the end of the governing council tenure and by the law, I became a surrogate council. Unfortunately, the chairman of one of the unions was not around from the fact, so the panel sanctioned two persons out of the three persons. And that fair hearing entails parties to be properly heard. We appealed to the governing council to review the case and they called for another panel. I had to review the file and I did a submission to the Governor that there must be fair hearing. I inherited a file of which the immediate governing council had sanctioned some union leaders. We have to let the law take its course in accordance with the extant laws. Some union leaders took the law into their hands. Then we had AOCOED, an incident that happened in March 2020. I submitted the report to the Head of Service. The panel submitted the report in the middle of last year. We took steps by inaugurating the visitation panel as stated in the extant law. It went out of hand and the school had to be closed down for months. We had LASPOTECH filled with crisis we had restlessness on campus and union challenges.
Unfortunately, we couldn’t before the inauguration of the current governing council. I tried to see if we could find a middle ground and resolve it for him. We had the issue of the former Provost of LASUCOM, who has been under interdiction. The Visitor said we should allow the parties to explore the options as it is. After listening to both sides, even Dr Dipo Fashina and the VC were in that meeting. We had to make a decision in respect to the status vice versa the matters in court and the letter of appeal from the apex body of ASUU.Īnd the former President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Baba Sunmonu. These were members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) led by Dr Isaac Oyewumi, Dr Tony Dansu, Dr Adeola Oyekan and the others. That is the first issue we had to address. We inherited LASU’s challenges and problems that bother on dismissed staff. In LASU, we have the Lagos State College of Medicine (LASUCOM), semi-autonomous kind of.