“NUC has been acting contrary to its statutory function as a regulatory agency, transmuting itself to a ‘tender board’ which awarded contracts for the construction of 560 bed spaces hostel for each university at a whopping sum of N1.2 billion. This contract sum translates into N2.143 million per bed space and N8.571 million per room,” he said. “We foresee more of such scandalous contracts with the new students’ hostel project being planned by the Suswam committee. To be specific, the committee is proposing to commit as much as N1.6 million to a bed space, whereas our random check suggests that this could go for between N200,000 and N400,000— depending on location. We call on National Assembly members to further investigate this matter as part of their oversight function.”
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:15:12 +0000
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