“It was you the students who came to the Lagos State House of Assembly, complaining and in your own words, that your school ‘was no more than a glorified secondary school’, and that the House should exercise its prerogative in passing a resolution to inviting me to exercise my power as a Visitor and set up a Visitation Panel. The Visitation Panel was indeed set up and it made a lot of recommendations, some of which were accepted, one of which was that we should do everything to restore all the withdrawn accredited courses”.

“Part of the recommendation also was that there should be massive investment in infrastructure funding and part of it was that we should also increase school fees. It was not our initiative It was the consequence of the choice that you made”.

“All of those recommendations were implemented including asking the Vice Chancellor who was in the middle of his second term to resign because you did not want him. We also restored accreditation to almost all the courses remaining maybe just only one”.

“In the first two years, we spent not less than N11Billion on infrastructure in the school. Since then we have not left that school. Things that were not in that report we did it. We awarded contract for staff quarters and drainage channels and so on”, he explained.

Governor Fashola said there is no way people can live a life devoid of conflicts because interest will conflict against one another but that once reasons prevail there would be no conflict that will harm the people, maintaining that whenever the administration takes a decision, it always goes back to feel the impulse of the people and know whether it is achieving the desired goals.

While promising to speak to his Ogun State counterpart on the closure of the Ogun State University on behalf of the students as requested by their Spokesperson, Fashola reminded them that Nigeria is a federation of diverse opportunities and capacities.

He added that the decision on how to govern Ogun State rests on the table of Governor Amosun  who is well versed with the state of affairs there and that what Ogun State can do Lagos may not be able to do and vice versa.

The NANS Zone D Coordinator, Mr Sunday Ashefon commended the Governor for surprising the students with his decision on the LASU fees because what the students were clamouring for was a reduction before the Governor announced a reversal to the old school fees.