NBET faces sanctions over N19m blown on foreign training

The Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) has blown $55,000(N19 million) on training of 20 members of its staff in Denmark.

The cost of the four-day training is outside the flight tickets and exigencies.

The federal government is said to be worried that the agency violated its directive to all parastatals on January 22, 2016, placing embargo on foreign training and international travels by public servants in all Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

The agency is belived not to have sought the permission of the supervising Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.

The programme was between October 23 and 27.

The row generated by the overseas training made the government to rate it as “suspect”.

The Nation, November 10, 2017

 

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