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Alleged fraud: Senate to probe Federal Scholarship Board

Olalekan Saliu by Olalekan Saliu
January 9, 2018
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Alleged fraud: Senate to probe Federal Scholarship Board
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The Senate is to carry out a probe of the alleged fraud in the Federal Scholarship Board.

The fraud was said to be perpetrated in the form of award of scholarship to students abroad.

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This was made known on Monday in Abuja by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tetfund, Senator Jibrin Barau.

Barau who spoke during the 2018 budget defence by management of the Federal Scholarship Board at the National Assembly in Abuja said those behind the scam would be fished out.

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He said he was not pleased with the presentation of Mrs Fatima Ahmad, director of the board, stressing that the said scholarship award was meant to defraud the government.

His words: “I assure you that we are going to investigate your activities to fish out those behind scholarships fraud.

”It is obvious to all of us that there is massive fraud in millions of naira going on there and we are not going to relent until we unravel those behind the act.”

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