I’ve Cleared Chunk Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Varsity’s Debt – VC

Vice Chancellor of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, Prof. Ibrahim Hassan Garba, says helium has cleared one-third of the institution’s indebtedness wrong a fewer months of assuming office.

He added that helium achieved the feat without taking immoderate caller loan.

Garba stated this erstwhile the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) paid him abstracted solidarity visits successful his office.

He commended the assemblage assemblage for the sustained enactment and practice his medication has enjoyed since helium assumed bureau past year.

The president of SSANU, Comrade Sulisma Dauda Jatau, who led his executives, praised the vice chancellor‘s enactment style, peculiarly successful fiscal prudence, regularisation of law, and committedness to unit and students‘ welfare.

He, however, condemned caller antagonistic media campaigns against the assemblage leadership, describing them arsenic unfortunate and damaging to the institution‘s image.

Similarly, NASU chairman, Comrade Yusuf D. Yusuf, expressed interest implicit what helium termed “misplaced media attacks” linked to a national authorities argumentation that was wrongly attributed to the vice chancellor.

He pledged NASU‘s continued enactment for the administration‘s efforts to fortify world excellence successful the university

Responding, Garba said helium was overwhelmed by the unions‘ solidarity and described it arsenic a reflection of their patriotism and foresight.

He emphasised that his medication remains committed to fiscal subject and world justice.

„When I assumed office, I met a immense indebtedness burden. In the past fewer months, I person settled astir one-third of it without taking caller loans,“ helium said.

On welfare, the VC disclosed that 5 refurbished luxury buses person been deployed to easiness pupil shuttle betwixt Gubi and Yelwa campuses, portion a caller 32-seater autobus is being prepared for unit transportation.

He besides revealed that six of the university‘s grounded tractors had been rehabilitated for the farming season, with much to follow, to enactment some unit and the assemblage farmers astatine subsidised rates.