TETFund to fi nance fencing of UniMaid

Borno state Governor, Kashim Shettima, has met with the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu in fulfi llment of his promise to follow up on demand by the University of Maiduguri for the release of N2 billion for fencing of the university. Th e fence is 27 kilometres long from the eastern portion of the university through which Boko Haram insurgents had been accessing the school to carryout serial suicide attacks. Shettima also followed up on issues of federal government’s intervention in ongoing reconstruction of over 5, 000 classrooms and other school buildings destroyed by insurgents in 512 primary schools, 38 secondary schools and two tertiary institutions in Borno. A statement said Shettima, who was with the minister in Abuja on Monday, was accompanied by Senators Mohammed Ali Ndume, Abubakar Kyari and the state Commissioner for Education, Inuwa Kubo. Th e minister, however inform the governor that Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has been directed to fence the university through special intervention fund. Adamu said as soon as procedures for the project were completed, he would “come to Maiduguri to visit the university”, saying he had always been worried over the spate of attacks on the university. He said the planned intervention was being coordinated by the inter-ministerial task force on the northeast, chaired by the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed.