The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has denied embezzling N10 million scholarship grant of Kamal Adewole Saka, a Nigerian lecturer at the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, studying under the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) programme.
Specifically, the agency clarified that the complete tuition of N27,573,350.00 of the scholar had since been paid directly to the institution since November 3, 2022.
TETFund Director of Public Affairs, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, made the clarification in a statement on Friday.
The statement noted that Saka, who was awarded a TETFund scholarship for PhD. in Psychology at Girne American University, Cyprus, had accused staff of the Fund of embezzling his N10 million scholarship grant.
The Fund refuted allegations that it deliberately omitted names from the bailout approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for stranded TETFund scholars abroad.
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