Tetfund, Students Association partner to monitor Projects in tertiary institutions

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has involved the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), to monitor its projects in public tertiary institutions across the country.

The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, while presenting a 30-seater bus to NANS in Abuja on Monday, said their engagement was necessary to put contractors on check.

Echono said the fund was also committed, through constant dialogue with NANS to meet students’ needs, noting that they are the centre of any policy of education

According to him, “education is about students and how to equip them with the right skills and knowledge to contribute to development. TETFund is consulting with the students to find out their needs and with significant engagement, we want them to be our eyes in tertiary institutions.

“We want to identify in each campus a contact person to confirm whether our intervention is yielding fruit,” Echono said.

Similar Engagements

The Executive secretary further said that the fund also has similar engagement with staff unions to help monitor projects on campuses with the aim of harvesting expectations.

He added that the fund would continue to work with students to improve on student’s accommodations through Public Private Partnership (PPP).

He said that the donation of the bus was to address transportation issues on campuses.

Responding, the National President of NANS, Usman Barambu, commended the fund for donating the bus, following their request to President Bola Tinubu few weeks ago.

Barambu added that students are not direct benefit of TETFund interventions in higher institutions and so laid this particular complaint which had yielded results.

He assured that NANS will put thorough check on TETFund projects on campuses while also ensuring contractors carry out their assigned contracts dutifully.