Alleged Corruption: Senate Summons Top Govt Official

The Senate on Wednesday, December 2, mandated the its committee on tertiary institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund) to invite the executive secretary of the agency, Suleiman Bogoro to brief the chamber on allegations of funds misappropriation.

In a motion sponsored by Sabi Abdullahi, the agency is alleged to have misappropriated education tax funds in its coffers between 2011 to 2015.

Abdullahi’s motion titled: “The gross mismanagement of education tax fund 2011 to 2015″  said huge part of the misappropriated fund was budgeted for advertising and media for 2015 alone.

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Sabi said that N200 billion of the education tax fund between 2012 and 2013 were diverted to unknown use while maintaining that the board granted a loan to the federal ministry of education and organised a workshop and retreat in the US and Kenya in 2014 to 2015 without regards to the act titled the “Education Tax Act.”

“The senate is concerned that a whooping sum of about N500 million was budgeted for advertising and media in 2015 budget,” Abdullahi said.

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However, two bills were passed for second reading. They include a bill for an act to prohibit frivolous petitions and other matters connected therewith.

The other is bill for an act to ensure full integration of persons with disabilities in the society and to establish a national commission for persons with disabilities and to vest it with the responsibilities for their education, health care and protection of their social economic, civil rights.

In another development, the Senate also urged the federal government to immortalize Donald Etiebet, a former senator who died at the age of 84.

Beside immortalizing Etiebet, a high powered delegation was sent to condole with his family and the Akwa-Ibom state government.

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