Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), Olatunji Bello, has dedicated a new auditorium to the Lagos State University (LASU).

Bello said he decided on the gesture “as a way of sowing seed in the vineyard of knowledge, instead of spending lavishly on a birthday party when he clocked 60 in 2021”.

Bello, a former member of the Lagos State Executive Council, also noted that it was in line with his belief that public purpose is served better by helping public universities fill the infrastructural gap.

He spoke in Epe yesterday during the inauguration of the auditorium he donated to the Epe Campus of LASU.

“Without wishing to sound sanctimonious or all-righteous, one point I like to seize this moment to make is the consequential choice between transient enjoyment and posterity. Thus, by choosing to invest the money through sowing the seed in the vineyard of knowledge, I believe we are invariably preserving my 60th birthday cake in a way that it will be shared and savoured by many generations to come.

“Besides, this is my humble way of supporting the argument that public purpose is served better by helping public universities fill the infrastructural gap,” he said.

Commending his efforts, the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, and former Ogun State Governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, described the gesture as laudable.