SPECIAL ADVISER ON EDUCATION, TOKUNBO WAHAB REACTS TO PROTESTING UNIONS IN LASU FOR MINIMUM WAGE PAYMENT.

The Special Adviser on Education of Lagos, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab has reacted to the protesting LASU workers in a 

press release. 

The SAE detailed how the institution gets funding from the Lagos State Government despite being on subvention like other MDAs. 

Also, he stated how the State government undertake infrastructural developments in the instituton and admonished the management of the instituton to pay their staff salaries so as not to sabotage the efforts of school reopening by the Babajide Sanwo-Olu's administration in Lagos State.

Find below the press release as sighted by Epaloguestory as said by the SAE:

"We wish to state categorically that Lagos State University, like other subvented MDAs, collects the sum of N450,000,000.00 (Four hundred and fifty million naira) EVERY MONTH from The Lagos State Government as Subvention. The Government expects the institutions to also be responsible in the application of the funds and the staffing of the institutions. We must also have at the back of our mind that they have IGR which they generate and not accountable to government on how same is expended. 

"Aside the Subvention, the government is also responsible for the infrastructural developments (which include the recently approved 8,000 plus bed hostel in this same LASU) of the institutions and other ancillary things including payment for accreditation exercise for which the last one cost the government close to N500m.

"We expect that the management of these institutions pay up their staff salaries to avoid situations that looks more like deliberate sabotaging of the efforts of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu led administration as we prepare for schools resumption this week".

It is therefore our strong believe that government and the protesting workers will find a lasting solution to the situation on ground.