George Oji ABUJA Thirty years after the Nigerian Army Institute of Technology and Environmental Studies was established, the Senate has just begun moves to provide legal framework for the school.
A bill sponsored by Senator Kabiru Marafa (Zamfara Central), which yesterday passed second reading and entitled “A bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian Army Institute of Technology and Environmental Studies to provide for nonmilitary career training to personnel of the Nigerian Army, and for other matters connected therewith, 2015”, specifically seeks to provide enabling law and a legal framework for operation of the school.
The bill scaled second reading yesterday and was consequently referred to the appropriate committee for public hearing.
In his lead debate, Marafa lamented that the school, which was established almost at the same time with the Air Force Institute of Technology in Kaduna, has been suffering from poor students’ enrolment because of absence of the required law.
He argued that the institute, when fully legalised as a corporate body, would have access to funds that could be utilised for execution of capital projects and research work.
He said: “The Tertiary Education Trust Fund and other intervention agencies have long withdrawn their financial intervention to the institute because of lack of enabling Act.
“This bill greatly seeks to remove these impediments that have hindered the success of the institute in sourcing funds for its projects.”
He added that the bill, “seeks to raise the infrastructural, academic and administrative standards of the institute.”
Marafa said the bill will greatly improve the standing and capacity of the institute to deliver on its mandate both to the host community and to the nation at large.
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