NANS Sets Up Committee To Probe TETFund Intervention in Varsities, Others

The National Association of Nigerian Students has set up a committee to investigate allegations of misappropriation of Tertiary Education Trust Fund’s intervention fund by some universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

The student body has also called on the Federal Government to increase the Education Tax, payable by private companies in Nigeria, from the current 2 per cent to 5 per cent.

NANS President, Comrade Danielson Akpan speaking while addressing newsmen on Friday in Abuja, lamented that the education sector over the years has been on the decline because of corruption in the system.

He disclosed that the committee would visit the beneficiary institutions on verification of projects awarded by TETfund between 2009 till date.

Akpan said this was with a view of ascertaining the existence or not of such projects and to also discover institutions that are in the habit of diverting TETfund interventions or executing substandard projects.

He added that this criminal diversion of funds has led the execution of shoddy projects and in some cases outright abandonment, saying such substandard and abandoned projects dot tertiary institutions across the country.

He said: “The state of infrastructures on our campuses is nothing to write home about.

“Efforts by successive governments to address this obvious decline has met with sabotage by very many of the academic managers whose responsibility it is to ensure the development of our citadels of learning.

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