Taraba Pays #800m Counterpart Funds for UBE Projects

Taraba Government on Friday said it has paid the sum of N800m to the Federal Government as counterpart fund for the 2015 Universal Basic Education Commission Projects in the state. The State Universal Basic Education Board Chairman, Mr. Yakubu Agbaizo, told Strategic Media in Jalingo that the payment would enable the board to draw some funds to execute projects in the education sector.

He explained that the fund would be used in the development of primary and secondary schools education in the state. Agbaizo said Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba was working assiduously to pay the 2016 counterpart funds in spite of the economic recession in the country He said the board had saved over N31m monthly from the detection of various fraudulent activities in the board since his appointment as the chairman. Agbaizo said the United Bank for Africa was currently handling a bio-metric verification exercise for the board to ascertain the actual number of teachers on its payroll. He said that the exercise would also assist the board in getting rid of illegal recruitment and padding of teachers’ salaries. Agbaizo, who is the best 2016 SUBEB Executive Chairman in the North East, said the verification exercise would end soon.