Education committee warns on UBEC fund diversion
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Education, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere has said that no efforts will be spared to sanction the states found to have diverted the Universal Basic Education Commission grants to other projects than upgrading facilities in Basic Schools.
Answering questions from newsmen in Ilorin after a two-day inspection of UBEC projects in Kwara State, Ihonvbere, said that the Committee had reported state governments who failed to utilise the fund for the purpose it was meant including taking steps to retrieve some abandoned facilities the Commission allocated to some defaulting state governments.
According to him, “There are states that have collected marching grants from UBEC and have not deployed them to basic education. A few (of the states) have jettisoned the action plans of UBEC; they are doing something else with the money. Some have done wishy-washy works. With time, this Committee will release a list of our observations in various states.
“There are penalties for states where UBEC allocated critical infrastructure to some state governments but were abandoned. We are amending the UBEC Act so that UBEC can retrieve such facilities and put them to public use,” Ihonvbere added.”
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Afonja Descendants Union Agboola Abdulraheem Olota Of Odo-Owa Abdulrahman Abdulrasak Ilofa Oloye Jaigbade Alao Kazeem Adekanye Amoyo Bolakale Saka S.O. Opowoye Samuel Adedoyin Oba-Solagberu Saliu Tunde Bello Ishaq Oloyede Ajibola Ademola Julius Suleiman Alege Kuranga Samuel Adaramola Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari Oye Tinuoye Elelu Razaq Ayobami Akanbi Ridwan Agboola Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union Rapheal Ashaolu Apaokagi Kwara Pdp Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum Ella Supreme Tissue Paper Abdulwaheed Musa Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah National Information Technology Development Agency General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin Bello John Olanrewaju Okiki Medview Airlines Offa Descendants Union Farouk Salim National Broadcasting Commission Lotus Bank Noah Yusuf Yaru Damilola Yusuf Adelodun Bilikisu Oniyangi Hikmah AbdulKareem Oke-Ero Abdulkarim Adisa Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen YAKOOYO Sarah Alade Kwara-SAPZ Project Na\'Allah Sebastine Obasi Makama Of Ilorin Olomu Of Omu-Aran Okeose Christian Cementary Amasa Isaac Gbenle Dasuki Belgore Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku Maigida Soludero Transit Mustapha Akanbi Halidu Danbaba Ahmed \'Lateef IYA ALFA NLA Abatemi-Usman Joshua Adeyemi Adimula Yomi Ogunsola Moses Salami Veterinary Teaching Hospital Abdulganiyu Oladosu Ghali Muhammed KWSIEC Olawuyi 20 Billion Bond Tunde Kazeem Kupchi Hosea Maxwell