The Tertiary Training Belief Fund (TETFund) has issued a agency rebuttal to current allegations that it has intentionally omitted group of Nigerian lecturers learning below the sponsorship of the TETFund Scholarship for Tutorial Employees (TSAS) programme from the bailout authorized by President Bola Tinubu.
The Fund, in a press assertion signed by the Drector, Public Affairs, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, asserted that the claims of bias had been unfounded.
It particularly famous that the case of 1 Kamal Adewole Saka, a lecturer at Federal College, Oye Ekiti, who was awarded a TETFund scholarship for Ph.D. in Psychology at Girne American College, Cyprus, to the tune of N27,573,350.00 and has these days been within the media wrongly accusing workers of the Fund of “embezzling his N10 million scholarship grant” when, in precise sense, his full tuition had since been paid on to the establishment since November 3, 2022.
“Though the Fund had reported expending over N3.8 billion as bailout to about 1,500 stranded Nigerian students learning overseas below the TSAS programme to cushion the impact of the present trade charge in compliance with Mr. President’s directive, it has grow to be crucial to present detailed background and steps taken usually by the Fund and to particularly deal with the disinformation being peddled by Kamal Adewole Saka.”
The Fund additionally famous that students had been affected by the trade charge fluctuations as a result of non-operation of a domiciliary account by their dwelling establishments, which left them indebted on their programme.
