Chairman of Senate Committee on Higher Education, Senator Binta Masi Garba, has said that the N10 billion padding reported to be discovered in the education budget is meant for the Universal basic Education Commission and a typographical error from the office of the National Planning and Budget.
Garba said the issue was not with the ministry of education and that it had been resolved by the house and the senate and would be amended in the budget.
The senator stated this yesterday in Abuja after the commissioning of Federal University, Lafia’s connection to Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN) in inter-conference programme in National Universities Commission (NUC).
It would be recalled that the Senate Committee on Education last week at the 2016 budget defence noted that it uncovered about N10 Billion hidden in the budget of parastatals by the Federal Ministry of Education. She however said since the committee came on board, they had seen a lot of acts that needed to be amended to enable free flow on the quality of education in the country.
She said: “For us to find ourselves out of where we found ourselves in Nigeria, education is the bedrock of development and if education is not given the rightful footing in budgeting then definitely we will have a problem.”
