The government of the state of Osun has described the comments by Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state on the running of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH that tended to suggest that Osun has abandoned payment of workers of the institution as a product of misinformation.
It said to the contrary that the state has always been alive to its responsibility with regards to its obligations to LAUTECH despite the obvious lopsidedness in the distribution of infrastructure between the two owners states.
A statement from the office of the secretary to the state government Prince Wole Oyebamiji noted that Osun has never defaulted in the payment of salaries of workers in both the university and the teaching hospital in Osogbo.
It added that in 2017 alone, while Oyo state contributed seven hundred and seventeen million, eight hundred and eighteen thousand, seven hundred and ninety five naira , state of Osun contributed one billion, two hundred and ninety two million naira.
