By Aliyu DANLADI
The Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board (ENSUBEB) says it has not accessed a dime from the N3 billion Naira allocated to the board in 2018 budget.
The Chairman of the board, Chief Ikeje Asogwa, made the disclosure when the Enugu State House of Assembly Committee on Education paid its quarterly oversight function to the board in Enugu on Wednesday.
Asogwa attributed the dilapidated school buildings in the state to lack of funds, adding that the board got two approvals from the Enugu State Executive Council amounting to N2 .74 billion from the 2018 budget but had not accessed it.
He urged the committee to prevail on the state government to release the funds to enable the board develop the sector, which he said, the bedrock of every society.
He also said that the board had worked on the recruitment of teachers and replacement of those who resigned because of the appointment they got in other sectors.
Asogwa said that no fewer than 31 teachers were on secondment to both public and private sectors.
He said the board had distributed exercise books and other instructional materials in 1,226 primary schools in the state.
Asogwa told the committee that the board was not in charge of the N-power teachers recruited by the Federal Government.
He said that the board had no power over them, adding that they were being supervised at the federal level.
In his remark, the Chairman of the committee, Mr Matthew Ugwueze, promised to raise the challenges of the board at the executive session of the assembly.
Ugwueze promised to do his best to ensure that the board accessed some of the funds before the end of 2018.
He expressed regrets that some primary school teachers posted to the rural areas were not going to work.
