The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has mandated members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to henceforth assist in monitoring projects executed in varied establishments across the nation.
Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sunny Echono gave the coed physique the mandate on Monday.
Echono decried the poor hostel lodging for students, insisting that the Fund would within the close to future channel extra sources to constructing conducive ones for them.
He mentioned students have been on the core of any growth programmes of the brand new authorities, therefore their curiosity was additionally of nice concern in its intervention efforts.
While stressing the necessity for equipping students with expertise and rights assist, Echono famous that TETFund would really like the students to be its eye in varied establishments, reporting erring contractors to guarantee transparency within the system.
”We need to give you the option to determine on every campus a contact individual that can be in a position to checkmate our projects in order that we will have first-hand info, even earlier than sending our workforce there.
”We are doing a number of engagements with different stakeholders. So, going ahead, it will make our monitoring course of extra clear.”
NANS President, Usman Barambu revealed that the coed physique has been doing discreet monitoring on behalf of the company however mentioned now that the mandate has been given, they are going to put in thorough checks across campuses to be sure that contractors who deal with TETFund projects perform such projects diligently by means of common suggestions.
“We are happy to state that our interaction with TETFund is yielding fruits, we are here to thank the Fund and encourage the entire management to do more and more for Nigerian students.”
