BREAKING: “Academic activities will resume fully on Monday”-Ospoly Mgt Orders Immediate Resumption of Staff Members

 By: Boluwaji Daso

The management of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, has ordered all staff members of the institution to resume back to their duty on Monday, August 14th, 2023 expressing that all academic activities will continue thoroughly. 

In a memo obtained by our correspondent on Friday, August 11th, 2023, and signed by Oyesowo Lawrence for the Acting Registrar, firmly expressed the management has directed all the staff members to resume their various duties as appropriate. 

Relatively, the management advised the members of staff to comply with the directive accordingly.

The memo read in full;

“I am directed to inform the Polytechnic Community that academic activities will resume fully on Monday 14th August 2023”

“In view of this, all members of staff are to resume for duties as appropriate” 

“You are hereby advised to comply accordingly”

This came after the Deputy Governor of Osun State, Kola Adewusi declared that the students should hold him responsible if the institution failed to open on Monday. Assuring the protesting students in his remarks that he should be held responsible if the institution fails to open on the day speculated. According to him, “The students have done the right thing by demanding their rights through a peaceful protest.”

Additionally, the Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, RT. Hon. Prince Adewale Egbedun likewise promised the students quick intervention and lasting solutions towards the reopening of the institution and assured them that the institution would re-open on Monday in a Peaceful protest staged by the institution’s students and presided by the Students’ Union Government (SUG), Students Union Association (SUA) with the collaboration of all Faculty and Departmental executives on August 10th, 2023 at the Government House Osogbo. 

"I think I called the president this morning, he said the protest will be peaceful that is why I encouraged him, I'm assuring you, we are going to seek to this today, I'm a student like you, I'm going to intervene today, I'm promising you a lasting solution." the speaker stated.

In reaction to the statement, the President of the Students Union Government of Osun State Polytechnic Iree, Azeez Tajudeen Adebayo emphasized that the students will depend on the promise of the speaker. 

According to the statement of the SUG President, "The speaker had spoken we are going to hold him accountable for what he has said."

In a related development, The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (NASU), Iree Chapter, have jointly announced the suspension of the ongoing strike earlier today at Osun State Polytechnic, Iree. 

It will be recalled that OSPOLY ASUP members staged a protest at the institution on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, following the suspension of Dr Tajudeen Odetayo as the Rector which affected the ongoing examination of the Daily Part-Time students of the institution. 

This protest, however, led to the stoppage of the examination and closure of the institution, in which the protesting body insisted all academic activities would be suspended till further notice.