By DAPO FALADE
Osun State governor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, has directed the Osun State University to immediately take over and rename the College of Health Sciences and the former LAUTECH Teaching Hospital in Osogbo.
The development is sequel to the separation of joint ownership between Oyo State and the State of Osun on the ownership of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso.
The Osun State government made the disclosure in a press release issued by Folorunso Oladoyin Bamisayemi on behalf of the Osun LAUTECH Committee under the chairmanship of Professor Olu Aina.
Maintaining and making its position known to the members of the public, the state government disclosed that Osun State University has been directed to take over the College of Health Sciences and the former LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.
This new development, it said, will compliment the main teaching hospital that is under construction and donated by Mr and Mrs Modupe and Folorunso Alakija.
“The Government of the State of Osun has approved the renaming of former LAUTECH Teaching Hospital as UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital (UNIOSUNTH), Osogbo, with immediate effect.
“All consultants and other staff of the College of Health Sciences, as well as the Teaching Hospital in Osogbo are assured of job security under the new arrangement, as nobody will suffer loss of job or income as a result of the separation of ownership.
“The government wishes to advise staff and students of Osun extraction in Ogbomoso campus of LAUTECH to please remain there in Ogbomoso as their interests have been well protected by the MoU signed by the two governors.
“There is no reason for any staff to panic as their rights, privileges and duties will be dictated by the terms of their contract of employment.
“Government of the State of Osun has no reason to doubt the commitment and integrity of her counterpart in Oyo State as regards the faithful implementation of the MOU on job security and protection of students rights.
“Hence, there is no need for any panic induced request for mass transfer of workers of Osun extraction from Ogbomoso to Osun,” the press release stated.
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