Senate to Convert 2 Federal Polytechnique to Universities
Senate begins process of converting YabaTech, Kaduna Poly to
varsities
ABUJA—THE Senate has begun the process of converting Yaba
College of Technology, Lagos, and Kaduna Polytechnic into city universities.
YABATECH main gate The Bills, titled City University of Technology Yaba Bill,
2016 sponsored by Senator Gbenga Ashafa, APC,
Lagos East and that of City University of Technology Kaduna Bill, 2016, and sponsored by Senator Jibrin Barau, APC, Kano North, were introduced as first reading.
Lagos East and that of City University of Technology Kaduna Bill, 2016, and sponsored by Senator Jibrin Barau, APC, Kano North, were introduced as first reading.
While Yaba College of
Technology, Lagos, was established in 1947 as Nigeria’s first higher
educational institution, Kaduna Polytechnic was founded in 1956 as Kaduna
Technical Institute. Meanwhile, a bill for an Act to amend the Tertiary
Education Trust Fund 2011 and other matters to approve and checkmate the
disbursement of funds by the agency, yesterday scaled second reading in the
Senate.
Sponsor of the Bill, Senator Jibrin Barau, who noted that the Bill was
designed to correct the anomaly in Tetfund Act, however, explained that the
spending and disbursements of funds by TetFund was a clear violation of the
constitution. “The tenement of this bill is to correct the constitutional
aberration which was capitalised upon in the recent past to divert the fund to
other uses. “It is therefore certain that when the proposed amendment is made to
the Principal Act, monies belonging to TetFund shall be duly secured,’’ he
said.
In his contribution, Senator Adamu Aliero (APC-Kebbi) noted that it was
really a constitutional aberration for money to be spent without the approval
of the National Assembly. He said: “In the past, the executive was in the habit
of borrowing money, either from TetFund or from ecological fund and spent it
without going through the National Assembly. He explained that the Bill, if
passed, would be “a safeguard against borrowing money from special funds.
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