NYCN exonerates Adamu in varsity contract scam

By Joseph Erunke

THE National Youth Council Of Nigeria,NYCN and some civil society organizations have given the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu,a clean bill of health in alleged contract scam at the Federal University, Gusau.

At a press conference in Abuja,Friday,addressed by the NYCN President, Solomon Adodo on behalf of others,the organisations exonerated to the minister of any involvement in the same.

The organisations insisted that the minister could not have been found culpable in a contract scam when he had been instrumental in the reduction of enrollment cost for NECO, UTME /JAMB among others.

Recall that an online news platform had allegedly linked the Education Minister to a contract scam at the University of Gusau to the tune of N3billion meant for the construction of perimeter Wall Fence around the university.

Besides roping the Minister in, several millions of naira was also alleged to have exchanged hands between Adamu’s relatives, including the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Male Buni, the Governor’s younger brother, Adamu’s wife, Hajiya Ladi Adamu, Alhaji Gambo Muazu among others.

It was also alleged that currently, the vice chancellor of the federal university of Gusau, Prof. Magaji Garba is cooling off at the holding cell of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC in Abuja.

But the Youth Council leadership frowned at the allegations, describing those behind the propaganda as plotting desperate attempts to disparage the image of the Minister of Education and derail the spate of progress being recorded in the education sector, all in a bid to paint the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in a bad light.

“The meeting between the National Youth Council of Nigeria, Global Initiative for Mass Education, Civil Society Advocacy Groups for Accountability and Probity, Concerned Citizens for Educational Development, Guardians of Democracy and Development, Transparency Advocacy…