Anambra State is not among the 26 states in Nigeria including FCT that deposited their UBE counterpart Funding.
Anambra People gathered that Twenty-six states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory have as of March 28, 2024, lodged the sum of N32.5 billion counterpart fund with the Universal Basic Education Commission.
The lodgment of the fund will enable the states to access the yearly disbursement made available by the Federal Government through the Commission for states for the development of basic education.
The fund is deployed to improve the quality of basic education in all 36 states. Each state government is responsible for providing 50 per cent to match the annual disbursement provided by UBEC.
According to document obtained recently ,the states who have lodged their counterpart fund include Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, Yobe, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, FCT, Ekiti, Lagos, Ondo, Osun, Enugu, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross-River, Delta, Edo, and Rivers states.
According to the document, the states lodged the sum of N1.2 billion each.
It was gathered that Adamawa and Bauchi states, in a data, jointly failed to access the funds from 2022 (N1.2bn) and 2023 (N1.3bn) respectively.
There was no where in the list where Anambra State was mentioned among the states which have lodged their 50 percent counterpart funding to be able to receive the fund.
Recall during Peter Obi’s administration, Anambra was among the few states that pay its UBE counterpart funding and this helped improved basic education in the state.
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