Govt must account for every kobo on Safe Schools Funds – Senate declares 

The Senate Ad-hoc Committee connected the Safe Schools Initiative has launched a probe into the medication of funds allocated to the programme, including overseas grants, donor contributions and budgetary appropriations.

Chairman of the committee, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, announced this on Friday during the opening league astatine the National Assembly successful Abuja, saying the probe was aimed astatine ensuring accountability successful government.

He explained that due to the fact that the substance concerns nationalist information and the information of schools, delicate aspects of the deliberations would beryllium held down closed doors.

“Banditry, coercion and attacks connected schools are matters of nationalist security. We volition not sermon delicate operational issues successful nationalist due to the fact that we bash not privation to exposure accusation that could beryllium utile to criminals,” the president stated.

Kalu stressed that the probe was not targeted astatine immoderate individual, but maintained that the authorities remains liable for accounting for nationalist funds astatine each times.

“Government is simply a continuum. Whether these funds were released earlier the contiguous curate assumed bureau oregon not, authorities remains liable for accounting for each kobo entrusted to it,” helium said.

Kalu warned that each nationalist officials indispensable beryllium accountable to the National Assembly.

“This is the spot of democracy. Every curate appointed by the exec...