Buhari was speaking at the Fourth National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector held at the State House, Abuja,yesterday
He also challenged the notion that the incessant strikes, especially by unions in tertiary education, often indicate gross under funding, saying those who go on prolonged strikes on flimsy reasons are no less complicit.
The President said monies disbursed to the ministry of education alone constitute only a fraction of the government’s total commitment to the sector.
He called on pundits to widen their scope to include allocations to the Universal Basic Education, transfers to TETFUND and refunds from the Education Tax Pool Account to TETFUND
He also noted that corruption in the expenditure of internally-generated revenue of tertiary institutions had not received due attention from stakeholders.
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