Some State Governors Abandon Responsibilities For TETFund, Echono Says

The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary EducationTrust Fund, (TETFund) Arc. Sonny Echono has disclosed that some state governments after establishing universities abandon their responsibilities to TETFund.

Echono who was speaking during a visit of the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed to TETFund, explained that although the agency had the core mandate of providing funding for public educational facilities and infrastructural developments across the country, some governors establish new tertiary institutions and leave the responsibility of funding them solely to TETFund.