TETFund: We’ll punish those behind building collapse at Okopoly, Kano varsity

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has vowed to punish those behind the building collapse at Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil, and the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra state.

The pledge was made when the committee, which was set up to investigate the incidents, submitted its report to Abdullahi Bichi Baffa,  executive secretary of TETFund, with the agency promising judicious implementation of the recommendations.

Making the submission at the fund’s headquarters in Abuja, Lance Momodu, vice chairman of the committee,  who stood in for Justus Okah-Avae, the chairman, stated that the committee, during the course of its assignment, paid site visits to the two institutions and interacted with the heads of the institutions as well as other stakeholders such as the bursars, the directors of physical planning of the institutions and all those that were involved in the planning, conception and eventual execution of the projects that collapsed.

Recalling that the committee promised during its inauguration that there would be no cover up in the course of its investigations, the vice chairman informed the executive secretary that the committee carried out its assignment without fear or favour and that the report contained a true account of all that the committee discovered during its task.

He also added that a lot of interesting revelations were disclosed to the committee during the investigations.

While expressing the appreciation of the committee to Adamu Adamu, minister of education and the management of TETFund for the opportunity to carry out the national assignment, Momodu said the recommendations of the committee would be useful not only to the fund but also to the federal government for projects that may be affected by such problems.

Receiving the report on behalf of the minister of education, Baffa noted that cases of collapsed TETFund-sponsored buildings in beneficiary institutions were rampant.

He added that the fund would also consider the possibility of turning the committee into a standing committee of the fund.

While inaugurating the committee on behalf of the minister of education, the TETFund boss had vowed that everyone found wanting in the two incidents of collapsed would pay for the projects as well as face the wrath of the law.