COLLEGES OF EDUCATION
FEAR CLOSURE DUE TO
NON-PAYMENT OF FEEDING
GRANTS BY GOVERNMENT
information gathered by the News Desk of the Colleges of Education Weekly Journal indicates that Colleges of Education are likely to be closed down in the coming weeks as a result of non-payment of feeding grants by the Government.
Deep throat sources revealed that most Colleges are highly indebted to suppliers as a result of non-payment of funds to these suppliers who supplied goods (food items) to the Colleges for the whole of the first semester, which spanned from January-April, of 2020/2021 academic year.
One of the Principals who spoke to the News Desk, on condition of anonymity, stated that “we are seriously handicapped. For the whole of the first semester, some of us took food items from our suppliers without giving them a penny. Schools have reopened again, students have reported and we have nothing in the warehouse to feed them.
No supplier is ready to give out items on credit again”.
Another indicated that they used their students’ fees, meant for recurrent expenditure, to pay suppliers with the hope that the feeding fees will be released in the semester. Now funds to take care of recurrent expenditure (such as pay utilities, fuel, purchase of perishables to cook for the students, etc) is a big problem.
