The N10 billion padding reported to be discovered in the education budget meant for the Universal basic Education Commission has been described as a typographical error from the office of the National Planning and Budget.
Chairman of Senate Committee on Higher Education, Binta Masi Garba, made this disclosure on Tuesday 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.
She stressed that 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.
According to Garba, “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.”
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.
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