Lagos -The Lagos State Government on Friday
presented 12 fourteen-seater buses to students
union executives of State and Federal
Government-owned tertiary institutions in the
state.
The beneficiaries were the student unions of the
University of Lagos, the Lagos State University
(LASU), the Yaba College of Education and the
Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka.
Others were those of the Michael Otedola
College of Primary Education, St. Augustine’s
College of Education, and the Federal College of
Fisheries and Oceanography.
The students unions of the Adeniran Ogunsanya
College of the Education and Lagos State
College of Health Technology also benefited
from the gift.
Fashola, while presenting the buses to the
beneficiaries, said the buses were a redemption
of his promise to them.
He said the buses were to ease the
transportation of the executives of the
students’ unions, both within and outside of
their respective institutions.
The governor explained that the buses were
also presented to students of federal
institutions in the state because it concerned
the welfare of all students.
He added that the government had consistently
shared in the burden of police, customs and
some other federal institutions in the state, to
ensure that they served the residents efficiently.
"Students in federal tertiary institutions in the
state are residents of our state and we will
continue to demonstrate to you that there will
be no discrimination against anybody or
institution in this state.
"It is not only state institutions we are
intervening in. You will remember all of the
facilities we put in some federal institutions
during the Sports Festival, we left them behind.
"And, we have always carried federal
obligations here, supporting federal prisons, the
immigration and police and so on. This is the
character of the state government.
"And now that the All Progressives Congress is
taking over the federal government, I hope the
burden will reduce." he said.
Fashola said the government was presently
upgrading infrastructure at the Lagos State
University (LASU), to make the institution an
enviable citadel of learning.
The governor named the LASU’s Senate
building, the Students Arcade and the lecture
theaters, as some of the projects being put in
place by his administration.
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