President Muhammadu Buhari has said that corruption in the Education sector is undermining the efforts of the Federal Government’s investment.
Buhari made this known during his address at the Fourth National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector, held at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday.
The President said the monies disbursed to the Ministry of Education alone constitute only a fraction of the Government’s total commitment to the sector.
Buhari noted that corruption in the expenditure of internally-generated revenue of Tertiary institutions had not received due attention from stakeholders.  
The President therefore urged stakeholders to advocate transparency in the IGRs of Educational institutions and how such funds are expended.
He said; “This year’s summit will mirror how corruption undermines educational policies and investments, and creates an unfriendly learning environment for our youths.’’
“Incessant strikes especially by unions in the tertiary education often imply that government is grossly underfunding education, but I must say that corruption in the education system from basic level to the tertiary level has been undermining our investment in the sector and those who go on prolonged strikes on flimsy reasons are no less complicit. ‘’
“The 1999 Constitution places a premium on education by placing it on the Concurrent List, thereby laying the responsibilities of budgeting and underwriting qualitative education on both the Federal and State Governments.”  
“The total education budget for each year is, therefore, a reflection of both federal and state budgets and should be viewed with other financial commitments in their totality.’’
“The allocation to education in the federal budget should not be considered via allocation to the Federal Ministry of Education and also academic institutions alone but should include an allocation to the Universal Basic Education, transfers to TETFUND and refund from the Education Tax Pool Account to TETFUND etc.’’
“I am aware that the aggregate education budget in all the 36 states of the Federation and that of the Federal Government, combined with the internally generated revenues of the educational institutions themselves are also a subject that requires the attention of critics of government funding of education.”  
“Government will continue to fund education within realistically available revenue, but stakeholders, including the media, should equally advocate for transparency in the amount generated as internally generated revenue by educational institutions and how such funds are expended.’’
“Corruption in the expenditure of internally generated revenue of tertiary institutions is a matter that has strangely not received the attention of stakeholders in tertiary education, including unions.’’
“I call on stakeholders to demand accountability in the administration of academic institutions and for unions to interrogate the bloated personnel and recurrent expenditure of their institutions. Let me also implore the Unions to work with the government to put faces and identities to names on the payroll.”