Tension is growing at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Renewable Natural Resources of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Iseyin campus, as some categories of staff were chased out Tuesday for failure of the management to employ mainly indigenes of the town and Oke-Ogun zone in general as low cadre staff.
According to information reaching ogbomosoinsightonline.com, some junior staff were recently recruited, with four of them deployed to the library.
Meanwhile, “two of them are from Ibadan while two are from Oyo,” an impeccable source reveals.
“This angered some indigenes of Iseyin who are of the view that this is a violation of the rule that Oke-Ogun people should form the bulk of junior staff.
“As a result, they stormed the campus to exprresss grievances and to warn those newly recruited four staff.”
The source, a worker, informed further that “since that incident those four have not reported for work.”
Another lecturer who also spoke under condition of anonymity said, “We also are wary because we could feel the hostility. The condition is just not conducive.”
Efforts to reach the Provost, Professor J.G. Adewale, were unsuccessful as calls to his mobile line did not connect.
