ASUU demands for visitation panel to LASU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has made a passionate appeal to Gov­ernor Babatunde Fashola to constitute a visitation panel to the Lagos State University (LASU) and also to call the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof John Obafunwa to order.

ASUU Lagos zone which is made up of five universi­ties also accused the VC of being behind the crisis that led to the emergence of a splinter group in ASUU-LASU.
Addressing newsmen on the leadership crisis rocking the union, the, Zonal Coor­dinator, ASUU Lagos Zone, Dr. Adesola Nasir, called on the visitor to LASU to inter­vene in the maladministra­tion of the institution by con­stituting a visitation panel to the 30-year-old university.
He said, “This would commence the process of instituting permanent peace at LASU. To us, it would be a sure way to have first­hand information on the state of the university. We feel that refusal to do this would mean that the visitor supports the oppression and maladministration at LASU. For now, we still feel other­wise. This is the third time we are making the call. It is over five years the gov­ernor sent a visitation panel to LASU. Fashola has the opportunity to arrest the on-going crisis in LASU. If the VC is interested in cleaning the system, he should be the one calling for a visitation panel to investigate the rots in the system.
“What LASU needs now is a visitation panel and a lot of things will be thrown open. Our members and oth­er sister unions will be able to submit a paper on the state of affairs of LASU. It is no longer news that LASU has become endemic for staff and students crises largely to the actions of the present administration of the univer­sity,’’
According to him, Prof Obafunwa led administra­tion is anti people and has also become embroiled in some staff union issues and allow university organ to collude with some suspend­ed members of the union to foment crises.
The briefing was held si­multaneously with ASUU-LASU congress which was attended by 129 members who equally passed a vote of confidence on the Dr. Adekunle Idris led-exco and condemned the action of the 21 suspended members.
Briefing the congress on the situation of things as re­gards the splinter group, the ASUU-LASU chairman, Dr. Idris, accused the VC of orchestrating the crisis in the union and urged members to ignore any circular from Mr. Ayodele Asokere and his group.
On the splinter group, Dr. Nasir told newsmen that the ASUU Lagos zone and ASUU national recognize the Dr. Idris led exco and accused the VC of surround­ing himself with people who have questionable character.
He also condemned the VC for directing the stop­page of ASUU-LASU check-off dues by acting on the letter from the suspended treasurer.