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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) says N41.06 billion matching grant in its coffers has remained un-accessed by the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory as at 8 March 2021.<\/p>\n

Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, made this known during an oversight visit to the Commission by the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

He said about N143 billion matching grant was accessed by states and FCT from 2017 to 2020, out of the N184.8 billion that was made available by the Commission.<\/p>\n

While saying that no state has accessed the 2020 matching grant, Bobboyi said only Ogun State was yet to access its 2018 allocations while 10 states have not also taken delivery of their 2019 grants as of 8 March 2020.<\/p>\n

He listed the states to include Kebbi, Niger, Ogun, Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Edo, Abia and Lagos but added that Abia, Lagos and Kebbi had in a few days lodged their payments.<\/p>\n

Bobboyi, who lamented the several challenges bedevilling the basic education sector, said UBEC was appropriated 29.7 billion in the 2020 budget for capital projects with N1.3 billion for Federal Teacher Scheme; Constituency Zonal Intervention Projects (ZIP) \u2013 N2.8 billion and Constituency projects (Capital) \u2013 N25. 6 billion.<\/p>\n

He, however, said only N29. 75 billion (99.2percent) was released to the Commission as at December 2020.<\/p>\n

Bobboyi said with the capital releases, the Commission awarded contracts to the tune of N27.5 billion for 2,895 constituency projects across the country, adding that 939 of such projects have been completed while 1,956 are ongoing.<\/p>\n

He said the projects cut across classroom construction, classroom renovation and supplies of education items.<\/p>\n

The UBEC boss said, \u201c30 states and FCT have implemented 2018 (matching grant projects), six states namely; Anambra, Imo, Kaduna, Kwara, Ogun and Plateau are yet to implement, eight states have implemented 2019 matching grants projects, 28 states and FCT are yet to implement. In 2020, no state implemented the matching grants projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, the acting Chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education, Senator Akon Eyakenyi, said the team was at UBEC to assess its activities in line with the mandate of the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cUBEC is a major agency under this Committee because the foundation of education begins with UBEC. If we miss it at that level it will be difficult to get it right,\u201d the Akwa-Ibom\u2019s born Senator said.<\/p>\n

On his part, a member of the committee and former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, described as\u201d an embarrassment the 13.4 million out-of-school children in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called for the establishment of emergency schools in the northern parts of the country to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n

Also speaking, former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Umaru Al-makura called on UBEC to establish special schools in all the states in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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