The Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), a civic group led by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has given the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) till January 15, 2024, to access the over N68 billion matching grants from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) or face legal action. The group also asked the states and the FCT to register all the estimated 20.2 million out-of-school children in school and urged UBEC to disburse the counterpart funds directly to the state governments and the FCT.
For 18 years, federating states and the federal capital territory of Nigeria, failed to access a whopping N68,737,873,073.52 billion education grant, set
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The Alliance on Surviving Covid 19 and Beyond (ASCAB), led by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has condemned the refusal of state governments to access N68billion grant which is meant to uplift over 20million out-of-school kids in the country. Falana in a release on Thursday noted that if the 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory before January 15, 2024, fail to access the funds, the ASCAB shall seek an order of mandamus to compel them to do so forthwith.