TETFUND Executive Secretary Laments Abandonment of TETFUND Sponsored Projects in Higher Institutions

Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has lamented that abandonment of series of TETFUND sponsored projects across the nation's higher institutions.

Myschoolnews gathered he said this while speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day seminar for Desk Officers on TETFund intervention programmes in beneficiary institutions recently.

 Echono said 175 distressed projects, sponsored by the fund, are in various institutions of higher learning in the country due to the attitude of some heads of the institutions, who stopped work on projects initiated by their predecessors.

He said “We are giving priority to abandoned projects across the nation’s universities, and we are doing that this year and the next. I am advising heads of these institutions not to jettison inherited structures and projects. Some of them abandoned some projects because they were not the initiators.

“We are learning a wrong lesson from our political environment. Now, on campuses, we have caucuses, and when a new man comes in, he brings in his own people. Sometimes, in doing this, expertise, competence and other virtues are abandoned. I will advise that heads of institutions should appoint people who will add value to the system.

“Among the abandoned projects, there are some that require some little work and we are good to go. Many of such are to be inaugurated in the next one or two weeks, while some are not like that and the contracts may have to be determined,” he stated.