As budget defence continues, the Senate Committee Chairman on TETFUND and Tertiary Institutions, Binta Garba Masi has expressed disappointment over the manner the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojeinride has refused to appear before the Committee to clarify some issues.
Speaking on Thursday at the budget Defence by Federal Ministry of Education and some Institutions under it, Masi explained that an issue was raised against JAMB during plenary that bordered on spurious charges on forms, stressing that for several times JAMB was invited but failed to appear.
“In one of the plenary sessions, an issue was raised in the Committee of the whole that JAMB was charging exorbitantly for sale of forms, which was referred to my Committee, but we have invited them to explain, to no avail.
According to her: “it’s good we collaborate with each other and no one should constitute a ‘god’ into himself so that we know where we have problems in order to sort them out”, she maintained.
She added that it was unfortunate that the Committee had submitted its report on JAMB activities to the Senate without hearing from the board.
Meanwhile, while addressing some critical areas of education ministry’s budget as raised by the Minister, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, Senator Binta expressed worry that there would be brain drain in the education sector if nothing was done to halt it.
She further lamented that despite huge resources being committed by Nigeria government through scholarship, most of Nigerians studying abroad don’t return to work for the country, a situation she said was counter productive.
“I am so worried that having spent huge resources training our citizens abroad through scholarship, they don’t come back and we want the Minister to do something about this to avoid brain drain and to ensure quality education”, she said.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan in company of other top management staff, however, disclosed that the education ministry had not been offering scholarship for sometime due to paucity of funds, stressing that most scholarships had been through scholarship board and the NYSC.
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