The crisis rocking the relocation of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology to Iseyin in Oke-Ogun zone of Oyo State took another dimension as indigenes of the host communities, on Tuesday, chased staff out of the campus.
Oyo State recently announced the relocation of the institution’s Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Renewable Natural Resources to Iseyin campus.
The indigenes premised their decision on the claim that some junior staff were recently recruited, with four of them deployed to the Iseyin campus library.
Meanwhile, “two of them are from Ibadan while two are from Oyo,” an impeccable source revealed.
“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 did not want his name mentioned said, “We also are wary because we could feel the hostility. The condition is just not conducive.”