TETFUND contractors abscond after collecting money – Senate

The Senate yesterday mandated its committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND to investigate contracts awarded by TETFUND to unravel number of contractors who absconded after collecting money from the organization.

The probe followed a motion by Senator Jibrin Barau (APC, Kano) on the need for an investigative audit of contracts awarded and paid for by TETFUND.

“Conscious of the existing deficits in the infrastructural needs of all tertiary institutions in the country, and the allegations that some contractors that were awarded contracts by TETFUND have absconded with monies given to them, there is need to look into it,” he said.

To this effect, the Senate mandated its committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND to investigate the issue and report back its findings for further legislative actions.

Meanwhile, the Senate has urged the Federal Government to find immediate solution to the crisis rocking the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State over nonpayment of Staff salaries and allowances.

The resolution was sequel to a motion by Senator Buhari Abdulfatai (APC, Oyo) and 40 others on the need for Federal Government to intervene in the institution’s crisis.

The upper legislative chamber also urged the Osun and Oyo state governments to sit down resolve the ownership problem of the school. The institution is owned by the two states government.

Senator Abdulfatai said the institution was on strike over the inability of the owners to pay N4bn accumulated salaries and allowances of the 3,000 staff.

He said the situation has put the career of the 34,000 students of the university in danger.