Abia State Judiciary Panel on Recovery of Government Properties and Funds has recovered a Toyota Hummer bus donated to the Abia State College of Education, Technical), ASCETA, Arochukwu, through Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, project, from a former provost of the school, Philip Nto.

The order for the recovery of the vehicle was issued by Justice Florence Duruoha-Igwe who declared that the former rector had no approval from the Abia State government or TETFund to use the bus as his personal property.

The panel ordered that the vehicle should be given to the new provost of ASCETA, Professor Vincent Eze.

But the immediate past provost, Nto, has protested the seizure of the official vehicle.

Nto, who said he was entitled to go with his official vehicle by extant government regulations, wondered why the panel did put that into consideration.