...Education Ministry tops with N1.2
trillion
The
All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter is congratulating the
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President
Muhammadu Buhari [GCFR] for ordering the comprehensive probe of the N4 trillion
debt by 28 Ministries and their departments and agencies handed over by the
immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
We
are deeply sad and embarrassed that the highest culprit among the 28 Federal
Ministries was the one headed by a Rivers son, Barr. Nyesom Wike as Minister of
State and later as substantive Minister.
Out
of the total sum of N4 trillion debts accumulated largely through
unconscionable and reckless contract awards and graft, the Federal Ministry of
Education under Nyesom Wike came out tops with a total debt of N1.2 trillion or
30 percent of the total indebtedness by the 28 Ministries.
For
the APC, judgment time has come for the former Minister now Governor of Rivers
State given that a number of sordid things were perpetrated in the Ministry
while under his watch.
The
then Minister of Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike got audit queries in his Ministry
for 3 years which he blatantly refused to respond to. And each time he was
reported to the then President Jonthan, the President did nothing but rather
shielded him from responding to queries in line with civil service rules.
At
some point, the matter was reported to the National Assembly Committees on
Public Accounts who invited the then Minister, Barr. Nyesom Wike for clarifications.
Again, he blatantly refused to comply with the invitations with the active
protection of former President Jonathan.
The
APC recalls that sometime ago, a mysterious fire broke out at the Federal
Ministry of Education Headquarters, Abuja in what was allegedly a deliberate
arson to destroy vital evidence on corruption in the Ministry with fingers
pointing at some highly placed persons.
The
APC has earlier drawn attention to an allegation that N20bn
was released for the purchase of books for Federal Government institutions,
adding that such books were never provided. We also drew attention to the
Almajiri School Scheme, the Universal Basic Education, the Tertiary Education
Trust Fund and the N87bn approved for the ministry but not utilised. Another is
the N180bn UBEC funds allegedly looted by Chief Wike and Dame Patience
Jonathan, through fraudulent contracts for the supply of textbooks to higher
institutions but the textbooks were never supplied.
When
the special task force to conduct the probe of the Ministries is raised by the
Federal Government, The APC would like it to be meticulous with its assignment
especially with the Federal Ministry of Education that was headed by an artful
dodger and master of underhand deal-making.
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