LAUTECH: The story of the beginning

 By Kunle Alhazan

Truly, I could vividly remember the fund raising day at the ISEYIN TOWN HALL then where Baba Ashiru Olona of blessed memory was imploring every well-to-do son and daughter of our town to donate handsomely for the institution to be located at ISEYIN.

I could also recollect that Baba Olona donated sum of #50,000 while Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha donated:the sum of #20,000 but Baba advised that he should donate more.

The value of those monies donated then could be imagined then compared to now.

Alhaji Sanni of blessed memory also promised on that fund raising day that if the institution is sited in ISEYIN he would build infrastructural facilities worth #200,000 for the school.

Those were some of the instances that happened on that day in 1989, aside other huge donations from other prominent sons and daughters of ISEYIN not excluding donations from young and old people, our mothers and fathers who were anticipating for the institution to be located in our town.

With all this historical background of the establishmentof the school, I wonder how the Ogbomosho people has turned the collective property of the state to their own property.

They had the upper hand then for the school to be located there because the military Governor then was their son not that they contributed more the other divisions of the state especially Oke Ogun region.