Senate Widens Safe Schools Probe to TETFund, NELFUND, UBEC, Humanitarian Ministry

• Grants Orji Kalu committee three-week extension to conclude investigation

• To scrutinise intervention funds, student loans, school security, social welfare programmes

Sunday Aborisade in Abuja

The Senate yesterday expanded its ongoing investigation into the Safe Schools Initiative (SSI) to key federal agencies handling education funding, student welfare and social intervention programmes in what lawmakers described as a determined effort to establish accountability in the management of billions of naira earmarked for the protection and welfare of Nigerian students.

In a move that broadens one of the National Assembly’s most far-reaching oversight exercises, the upper chamber approved the inclusion of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, and the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) in the investigation.