By Marie-Therese Nanlong

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund has offered to rebuild the main library of the University of Jos, UniJos which was razed by fire last month, the Executive Secretary of the Fund, Dr. Abdullahi Baffa disclosed.

Baffa who on Thursday led a team of building expert on an assessment visit to the site in Jos as well as pay a visit to the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Sebastian Maimako stressed that the Fund will take full responsibility of reconstructing the burnt library to bring back its lost glory.

He described the fire incident as “a sad and gory moment”, as the library is “the heart-beat of every institution of learning”, explaining that one of the mandates of the Fund is to ensure the provision of infrastructure for teaching and learning, training of lecturers and funding for researches among other things.

Besides rebuilding the structure whose work is to commence next week, he added that the Fund will ensure that the facility will be fully equipped with all the necessary working tools.

His words, “This is very gory sight seeing the library which is the heartbeat of every University burnt to ashes, we are really devastated and we share the pains of the University community, but we in TETFund are going to support the University which is one of our mandates to ensure we returned it back to its former stage.”

The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Sebastian Maimako appreciated the Executive Secretary for the prompt intervention and described it as apt considering the present economic situation of the country promising to maintain the library complex with cautions to avoid further occurrence.