Labour crisis at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago – Iwoye, Ogun State took a worrisome dimension yesterday as its branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resolved to stay away from the campuses of the institution from tomorrow.The lecturers said the decision was predicated on the need to ensure their “safety” following on -going industrial dispute between the OOU management and a coalition of three non- academic unions.
The dispute, the lecturers claimed, had fostered an atmosphere of “insecurity to lives and properties” on the campuses.
The industrial dispute which began two weeks ago by the Senior Staff Association Nigerian Universities(SSANU), Non-Academic Staff of Universities( NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists(NAAT), have paralysed administrative and academic activities in the University.
Addressing reporters in Ago – Iwoye shortly after its Congress, the ASUU branch chairman, Dr. Adesola Nassir said the lecturers would return to campuses when the conditions that gave birth to the insecurity around the areas are “resolved” by the authority.
He said, “For safety, Congress resolved that members should stay – off campuses until the matters that instigated the potentially volatile state is resolved”.
Nassir also said the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Wale Olaitan should be blamed if the institution loses out of the N100bn Federal Government (FG) intervention funds to Nigerian universities.
The FG, he added, has already set up Prof. Mahmood Yakub - led Need Assessment Committee to visit universities, collect data and allocate the funds.
He expressed the fear that OOU may lose out of the funds this year because the requisite conditions for benefiting from it cannot be immediately met by the institution given the tardiness with which the management responds to change.
“For a university to benefit, it must have a Budget Monitoring Committee made up of elected representatives of staff and Students Union and headed by an external member of Council.
‘’Presently, OOU has no such Committee since it has no Governing Council,” he pointed out.
He noted that the situation is not helped by the recent pronouncement allegedly credited to the Vice - Chancellor that OOU would not profit from the N100bn fund.
Nassir dismissed such utterance as a “gross distortion” of the issues.
The University’s spokesperson, Mr. Sam Oyeleye however , said OOU have been benefiting from the Special Funds and would benefit from it this year as there are no hindrances facing the institution in that regard.
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