TETFund expends N4b on 11 projects in Gombe varsity
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund on Friday disclosed that it has expended N4,591,813,389.70 to construct 11 projects in Gombe State University.
Disclosing this Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sony Echono, said the funds were allocated between 2014 and 2021 and completions attained in 2023.
Echono made this disclosure as part of the activities marking its 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th (combined) Convocation/Graduation ceremony in GSU.
Our correspondent reports that Echono also inaugurated four other projects in Federal College of Education Technical, which include Early grade reading resource centre, Early childhood care education complex, Female hostel block and 4,390 capacity lecture hall.
While some of the facilities commissioned in GSU Faculty of Law, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Laboratories, Faculty of Science complex, ICT centre, main Library among others.
He said, “The projects to be commissioned today are 11 in number, and are those of the Special High Impact intervention, Special, Annual and Zonal interventions for which funds were allocated between 2014 and 2021, and completions successfully achieved between 2021 and 2023. The total cost of these projects amount to N4,591,813,389.70, all delivered successfully in line with the TETFund guidelines.
“This is surely a testament to the resolve, focus and agility of Management of the institution in partnering with the Federal Government in its efforts at making our public tertiary institutions centres of excellence and citadels of research and discovery and a drive towards making the institutions globally competitive. I therefore salute the doggedness of the Management and urge you to maintain focus and ensure consistency in realising the mandate of the university.”
According to him, following GSU’s establishment in 2004, the university became enlisted as a beneficiary of TETFund intervention programmes in 2006 and has remarkably continued in that stead till date, adding that about 86 per cent funds have been accessed.
“Ever since, the university has asserted its dominance in this region and has as well earned a reputation in the delivery of very iconic projects which prominently the university’s landscape. I will specifically mention that from its year of enlistment as a beneficiary of the Fund in 2006 to 2023, TETFund has allocated the sum of N15,272,720,784.00 for infrastructure-related interventions, cutting across the Annual, Special and Zonal interventions, amongst others.
“With about 86 per cent funds already accessed till date, we note with delight that these funds are being deployed judiciously in the provision of requisite facilities, which are prominent structural features on the campus here and other campuses of the University. No doubt, projects undertaken with these funds have remarkably impacted on the mandate of the university in facilitating teaching, learning, and research,” he added.
