Ondo varsity urges Aiyedatiwa to release funds for completion of abandoned projects

The Vice-Chancellor of Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, OAUSTECH, Okitipupa, Ondo State, Prof. Temi Ologunorisa, has appealed to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to merchandise funds for the completion of abandoned projects dotting assorted parts of the institution.

While besides urging Aiyedatiwa to found the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, similar the Federal Government, Ologunorisa disclosed that the determination volition successful nary tiny measurement assistance to harness the state’s immense coastal resources.

The Vice-Chancellor made the entreaty during an oversight sojourn of the State House of Assembly Committee connected Tertiary Institutions to the institution.

Ologunorisa, who emphasised the request for much infrastructure to accommodate the expanding pupil colonisation successful the institution, revealed that OAUSTECH had go 1 of the preferred institutions for admittance seekers successful the country.

He urged the committee to entreaty to the politician to guarantee the speedy completion of the Maritime Academy being constructed astatine Ugbo-Nla by the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, OSOPADEC.

The Vice-Chancellor, who hailed the politician for punctual outgo of monthly subvention and the wage grant to the institution, requested the merchandise of the N1 cardinal allocated successful the 2024 fund to implicit the School of Science Building, which had been abandoned for years.

He arsenic urged Aiyedatiwa to intervene successful the NDDC and OSOPADEC abandoned projects and guarantee the contractor handling the 2.5 km roadworthy operation returns to site.

On his part, the committee chairman, Chris Ayebusiwa, commended Ologunorisa for his strides successful the assemblage and assured that decisive actions would beryllium taken to implicit the OSOPADEC and NDDC projects, with different subordinate of the committee, Messiah Oluwatoyin, promising to impulse Aiyedatiwa to guarantee OSOPADEC completes the Maritime Academy astatine Ugbo Nla.