Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, and the House of Representatives Committee on Education, yesterday, disagree over 2013 capital budget performance.
While the minister said his ministry had achieved between seventy and one hundred per cent performance in implementation of the capital budget for the year, Chairman of the Committee, Aminu Suleiman, disagreed, insisting on seeing a detailed report of how the capital projects were executed.
The minister said access and quality which used to be a major contention was now a thing of the past as 23 million to 29 million children were enrolled between 2010 and 2012.
”Tertiary institutions carrying capacity increased by more than 100,000 students annually as well as students enrolment which had increased from 620,000 in 2011 to 750,000 in 2013, and “there is marked improvement in the quality of education at all levels,” he said.
On Nigeria Union Teachers, NUT, proposed sympathy strike, Wike said “NUT has no business in ASUU strike. ASUU did not go on sympathy strike with NUT when some states were owning them. What is the relationship between NUT and ASUU? No nexus, no connection.”
Chairman, House committee on Education, Aminu Suleiman, faulted the Minister’s claim, and asked for a more detailed report.
He said: “The one you have shown us is too scanty and not detailed enough. You were not specific concerning the locations of the projects, the year of completion and the amount given as well as the contractors handling them.”
He urged the minister to find a lasting solution to incessant strikes in the sector.
“Find a lasting solution concerning the ASUU strike and other strikes in the sector because this is a recurring decimal and it worries many of us.
”We hope to see an end to the crisis in one or two weeks as pressure is been mounted on us by Nigerians and we might have no option but to redeploy necessary machinery to end the crisis. Feelers says end is in sight and I hope we will be vindicated in our assumptions,” he said.
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