The management of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) has concluded plans to sanction and blacklist any contractor who fails to execute any of the TETfund’s contract awarded to them according to specifications.
Executive Secretary of TETfund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, stated this while fielding questions from journalists at the weekend after he commissioned and handed over a N336m Academic Publishing facility to the management of the University of Calabar.
He said the time has come when contractors who execute business with TETfund need to sit up and do the right thing rather than play pranks whenever contracts are awarded to them.
Professor Bogoro decried how the country’s reading/publishing culture has faded away, making it impossible for the youth to focus attention on researches which can lead the country to innovation in technology.
Professor Bogoro warned that henceforth any contractor who haphazardly execute TETfund projects would not only lose the patronage of TETfund but would also be made to face the wrath of the law.
He frowned at the use of substandard materials for project execution, saying that contractors who fail to execute projects according to specifications would have the organisation’s sledge hammer fall on them.
