SDD-UBIDS appeals to GETFund to complete abandoned projects

The Vice-Chancellor of the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) in Wa, Prof. Emmanuel K. Derbile, has appealed to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to help complete a three-storey classroom and office block that the university intends to convert into a central administration to enable them to move in.

He said the current block being used as an administration block was a residential facility that was converted into an office complex to host the administration of the university.

He said UBIDS as a university, “does not have a central administration block” and stressed the need to complete the project on time to enable the university to have a more spacious place to use as administration.

“It was a residential facility and we quickly had to adapt and convert it into our administration block, so we do not have an administration block, and this is important for governance and management of the university,” he said.

Visit

Prof. Derbile made the appeal when the Deputy Administrator of the GETFund, Alhassan S. Dandaawa, visited the university to inspect some of the projects being sponsored by the fund that had been abandoned.

He said if the funds were available, the project could be completed within three months for the administration to move in and allow some of the faculties that were currently operating in rented premises in town to occupy the current block.

He said that since the project was near completion if it was prioritised, it would help to enhance the operations of the university.   

Assurance

Mr Dandaawa assured the VC that the fund would take steps to ensure that some of the projects that were near completion would be finished on time to enable the university to make use of them.

He acknowledged that UBIDS as a university required infrastructure to make it fully operational and promised to work with the administrator to ensure that some of the projects were completed on time.

He was glad that the contractor working on the office complex had moved back to the site and was hopeful that the fund would honour his certificates to enable him to complete the project.