TETFUND Accuses States Governors of Not Adequately Funding State Tertiary Institutions

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has accused some of the state’s governors of not adequately funding their Tertiary Institutions, including Universities, and Polytechnics.

The fund said some of them are abandoning their responsibilities for their tertiary institutions to TETFUND.

The Fund Executive Director, Sunday Echono, spoke on the issue while receiving Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state in his office in Abuja.

According to him, some of the governors establishing new universities and polytechnics are leaving their responsibilities of providing infrastructure and facilities to TETFUND.

But this is not the case in Bauchi. Each time we go to Bauchi to commission TETFund projects, we are impressed to see the complementary infrastructure.

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While lauding Mohammed’s efforts in establishing the new higher institution, the ES assured the governor that the agency would give maximum support to the institution, like all other public tertiary institutions in the country.

The new institution that has come on board – the one on education technical – is very important.

Because finding teachers on technical subjects at the basic level has been a challenge.

And you will not only be producing for Bauchi alone but indeed for the entire North East region.

So, I will be advising my director to liaise with the Commissioner for Higher Education, so we do the formalities of enlistment and begin to support that, he said.

Mohammed had said his visit aimed to brief the Echono on the establishment of the new tertiary institution and seek the agency’s support for its rapid development.

He called on TETFund and relevant international organizations to assist in the development of the new institution.