Lagos Assembly Orders Re-Opening Of LASU Reg Portal, Students To Pay Fine

The Lagos State House of Assembly has asked the management of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, to re-open its registration portal to some students who have not yet registered. This followed the closure of the school on Thursday by the school authorities after some aggrieved students staged a violent protest in the school.

The demonstrators went on rampage, destroying some school properties as well as the Vice-Chancellor’s car.

The students were protesting the closure of the school’s registration portal by the management, which prevented them from writing their exams because of non-registration.

At a public hearing set up by the Assembly on Friday in Alausa, which was presided over by the Speaker, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, the legislative body told the school management to re-open the portal for two days to allow the affected 1,292 students to complete their registrations for the 2012/13 second Semester.

Aproko247 learnt that over 9,000 students of the school had completed their registrations when the portal was active before the shutdown, which caused the aggressive protest on Thursday.

The House condemned the brutal protest staged by the student and warned that such would not be condoned in the future.

Reading the resolution, after consulting with the school management during a one-hour recess, the Speaker ordered the management to carry out a comprehensive assessment of damages done in the school by the students and report same to the House.

He also ordered the Students’ Union to write an apology letter on behalf of the erring students to the school management and directed the 1,292 students to write a letter of undertaken promising to be of good conduct, while also ordering the management to allow the 1,292 students to sit for the exams after completing their registrations.

The Speaker promised to pay an on-the-spot assessment to the school. He also ordered the setting up of a Committee by the House to investigate the remote and root causes of the protest. The Committee, which will submit its reports to the House in four weeks time, according to him, would be set up at the next sitting on Tuesday.

Honourables Wahab Alawiye King, Ipoola Omisore, Funmi Tejuosho, Bakky Balogun, Ajibayo Adeyeye, Kolawole Taiwo were some of the lawmakers who spoke at the hearing.

Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, Bode Agusto; the VC, Prof John Obafunwa; DVC (Academics), Prof Sena Bakre; Dean of Student Affairs, Prof Kabir Akinyemi represented the school at the public meeting, while the Ag-SUG President, Comrade Mojirade Hassan and some of her executives stood for the students.

Also present at the seven-hour meeting were the Commissioner for Education, Mrs Olayinka Oladunjoye; and Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Otunba Fatai Olukoga.