Strike: LAUTECH Summons ASUU To Meeting After Refusing To Resume

The management of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, has invited the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian University, as well as other workers’ unions in the university to a meeting.

It can be speculated that the planned meeting is supposed to address some issues, including unpaid salary arrears of 11 months, which forced all the unions to embark on an indefinite strike at different times and their refusal to resume after the management reopened the institution.

The Registrar of the university, Jacob Agboola, said in the letter written to the ASUU and the Joint Action Committee, which comprises the three other unions, that issues relating to the reopening of the university would be discussed at the meeting.

The letter reads:

“The Vice Chancellor, Professor .A. S Gbadegesin, has directed me to invite you to a meeting with the management committee fixed for Monday, September 18.

“The meeting will discuss issues related to the reopening of the university as contained in a recent circular. The slight delay in releasing the circular was inadvertent as it was occasioned by the pressure of work.”