Independent monitoring report on the implementation of the 2015 Kano state’s Sate Universal Basic education (SUBEB) action plan has called for the collation of details of defaulting contractors to ensure that such contractors are blacklisted and reported to anti-corruption agencies.
The report presented for validation at a meeting of stakeholders for upward projecting conducted by Human Development Initiatives (HDI) in collaboration with Grassroots Health Organization of Nigeria (GHON) also call for the disclosure of the proactively approved UBE action plans, bills of quantity of projects in public through a functional website and other social media platforms.
Earlier in his address HDI research and monitoring officer Mr. Olayemi Samuel stated that, the overall aim of the monitoring exercise is to track the utilization of Universal Basic Education matching grant in Kano towards ensuring improvement in the teaching and learning and also encourage citizen’s participation in monitoring of UBEC projects.
Similarly, GHON’s assistant programme officer Malam Ali Abdu Sambo discloses that, without effective monitoring mechanism in the execution of the UBEC projects in states the tendencies of use of substandard materials and delay in project execution will continue to be experienced and the aim of the matching grant can be thwarted.
