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Gov. Oyebanji Approves Payment of Over N3.5 Billion Counterpart Funds For 2024 UBEC/SUBEB Intervention Projects.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji has approved the payment of a sum of N3,554,642,584.46 as counterpart funds for execution of 2024 UBEC/SUBEB intervention projects.

This is coming on the heels of last Tuesday’s opening of bid signaling the commencement of the 2023 UBEC /SUBEB projects.

The Executive Chairman of the state Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi in a statement made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti disclosed that the approval was a bold step by the governor towards providing conducive teaching and learning environment for public primary schools across the state.

He said Governor Oyebanji has within the past two years paid the UBEC/SUBEB counterpart funds for 2022 and 2023 matching grants which had guaranteed back to back Government intervention in the basic education sector in the State.

Akinwumi said apart from this, the Oyebanji administration had recorded unprecedented development in sector which include procurement and distribution of instructional materials to enhance teaching and learning, employment of several teaching and non-teaching staff, construction and renovation of classrooms, training and retraining of teachers and provision of ICT equipment for the schools.

He re – echoed the determination of the board to ensure the speedy and successful implementation of the 2023 projects so that those of 2024 can follow almost immediately, stressing that the governor having fulfilled his part would be anxious about the early completion of the projects according to specifications.

Prof. Akinwumi while thanking the governor for his passionate interest in the development of basic education in the state urged the successful bidders in the on – going 2023 UBEC/ SUBEB projects to comply strictly to the UBEC guidelines, the federal and state procurement acts for timely and efficient delivery of their contracts.

He also charged the teachers and other education stakeholders to be more proactive in the dissemination of their duties to ensure that the huge investment of the state government on education is not a waste of the state’s scarce financial resources.

Posted in Ekiti State News Bulletin
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