TETFUND Boss Commissions N866m Building Projects At COE Akamkpa

The executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFUND), Architect Sonny Echono, has commissioned three building projects worth N866,788,454.84 at the Cross River State College Education (COE )  Akamkpa in Cross River State.

Speaking while commissioning the projects at the main campus of the Cross River State College of Education Akamkpa on Thursday in Cross River, Executive Secretary of TETFUND Sonny Echono stated that the academic blocks would go a long way to boosting the educational sector in the state and the nation at large.

The three capital projects commissioned by the TETFUND boss include the School of Education Building under the 2018 Special High Impact Intervention at N345,728,721.00.

The Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, under the years 2021- 2023 (merged) Annual interventions, constructed at the cost of N236,071,119.97.

The Department of Human Kinetics and Physical Education, also under the year 2021-2023( merged ), Annual interventions were constructed at N284, 986,613.87.

“As required by TETFUND, the college prioritised the projects to address deficient areas and provide requisite infrastructure to aid teaching, learning and research.

He said, “It will also provide a conducive operating environment for students, lecturers, and non-teaching staff in line with TETFUND’s mandate.”

Also speaking while assisting the TETFUND Executive Secretary in commissioning the new building erected to be occupied by the Department of Human Kinetics and Physical Education, the Cross River State Commissioner for Education Associate Prof. Stephen Odey, who represented the state governor Bassey Otu, stated that with the building, more could be archived by the institution’s students.

Gov Otu urged the traditional rulers to invoke their powers to ensure that miscreants who came to vandalise the property in the new building would be punished.

He charged the college management and students with guarding the new buildings as if they were their personal property.