Ogun govt decries decay of varsity’s Medicine College

ABEOKUTA-Ogun State Government has flayed the deteriorating state of Obafemi Awolowo College of Health Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Sagamu, describing it as ‘unimaginable”.

Executive Secretary, Bureau of Tertiary Institutions in the state, Professor Kayode Oyesiku, said this while speaking with journalists when he accompanied the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Segun Odubela, to the college on a familiarisation visit.

He said: ”The visit of the commissioner to the College of Medicine is a landmark, because it is coming at a time when the college needs the attention of the government. The extent of deterioration is unimaginable and one begins to see the quality of medical students that are likely to be produced”.

Oyesiku, however, expressed hope of the college regaining its lost glory given the assurances of the government direct intervention by assisting the college in upgrading its facilities.

Odubela said the government will assist the college, adding that his visit was borne out of the fact that government wants to assess the situations of things in state-owned tertiary institutions and immediately find solutions to their problems.