Lecturers at the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) have asked the federal government to launch a probe into the missing N3 billion revenue uncovered by a June 2021 presidential visitation panel to the institution.
A 2021 presidential visitation panel to the UniAbuja chaired by Bujar Goni Aji and inaugurated on April 13 of that year submitted its probe report covering the 2011-2015 and 2016-2020 sessions.
The former minister of education, Adamu Adamu, who received the 342-page report, however, found some irregularities in the audits done during the 2019/2020 session in the institution.
According to the panel’s report, the governing council at the UniAbuja failed to take measures to correct the discrepancies.
“The governing council had taken policy steps of boosting the IGR base of the university through upward review of student fees and blocking of leakages in payments,” the 2021 panel report read.
“To this effect, the council approved the engagement of Messrs Edutech Portal Solutions, at the cost of N18,900,000, for the deployment of the student fees management portal to block leakages in payments.
“The panel, however, noted that based on the official students’ enrolment and the approved student fees as of the 2019/2020 session, the university had the propensity of generating N4,869,033,958 as against N1,654,896,918 declared by the university bursary.”
Some lecturers who spoke to the media on condition of anonymity, have now aired their grievances, alleging a ploy by complicit individuals to stop any further investigation into the findings of the 2021 report.
They also alleged a correlation between the recent appointment of Aisha Maikudi as the substantive Vice Chancellor (VC) and the purported attempt to “cover up” the activities of the then-governing council which was chaired by her father Sani Maikudi.
