The senate on Tuesday asked its committees on basic and secondary education, tertiary institutions and TETFUND to investigate the utilization of $20 million funding proposed and budgeted for the initiative over the years.
The probe would also cover all monies donated by foreign governments and agencies to the initiative.
This was part of the resolutions reached during plenary on Tuesday after the senate considered a motion on the “Urgent need for the Restoration and Revalidation of the Safe School Initiative in Nigeria.”
Sponsor of the motion, Senator Stephen Adi Odey (PDP, Cross River) said the “Safe School Initiative” was launched to promote security and safety of schools, pupils, students, teachers, as well as facilities in 2014.
He said the target of schools in diverse locations, especially the regrettable kidnap of the Chibok and Dapchi School girls in Borno and Yobe States respectively, the Kankara School Boys in Katsina State and most recently, the kidnap of students of Government Science College, Kagara in Rafilga Local Government Area of Niger State, have exposed the unimaginable decadence and dilapidation in the schools in Nigeria, drawing inference from the footage; from the school environments.
