Benue SUBEB executes 426 projects, 229 under construction

The Chairman of the Benue State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Rev.
Philip Tachin has disclosed that 426 projects awarded by the board have been completed while 229 were still under construction and rehabilitation.
Tachin also noted that 79 of the projects have been terminated.
Tachin made the disclosure after he and members of the board’s management team inspected completed and ongoing primary school projects constructed under the Benue State Government and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), intervention fund at the weekend.
He noted that the board had embarked on 740 projects to give the schools new lease of life.
He said more primary schools have been slated for rehabilitation before the end of Governor Samuel Ortom’s first tenure.
The schools inspected included the Local Government Education Authority (LGEA), primary schools in Gbajimba and Mbabegha in Guma local government area as well as St.
Theresa’s Primary School in Makurdi.
According to him, the board also procured thousands of modern plastic seats, tables, computers and other learning aids using the counterpartfunds.
He stated that more than 50 public primary school structures have been destroyed during renewed herdsmen’s attacks in the affected areas in 2018 with more than 20,000 children forced out of school.
Reverend Tachin stated that over 16, 000 of the children were taking refuge in various internally displaced people’s camps in the state.
It would be recalled that the Benue state government under Governor Samuel Ortom on assumption of office paid N3.8 billion as counterpart funding to match UBEC’s N3.8 billion and accessed the total of N7.6 billion for the facelift of primary schools.