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Published: 20 September 2025
The Education Minister, Hon. Lawyer Haruna Iddrisu has stated that Tamale Technical University must be in better place with the requisite Educational infrastructure available for conducive learning environment for the students.
The Tamale South Legislator noted that the Technical University will soon get support from government to improve upon their infrastructural deficit including lack of basic amenities which triggered violent protest by the students towards management of the school.
On a Fact-finding mission to ascertain underlying factors about the impasse between students and management of the school over the violent protest, the Education Minister disclosed that government will vigorously increase investment and support in technical education to tackle infrastructural concerns, explaining the advocacy he has been embarking upon for TVET fund to address legitimate concerns of inadequate infrastructure such as lecture theaters, residential accomodations, ICT Laboratory and library facilities among others in the technical university.
The Minister also stated emphatically that 10 Million Ghana Cedis will be allocated in the 2026 budget for each distressed Technical University in the Country through Getfund to fix the infrastructural deficits in those schools, revealing that Institutions such as CK Tadem University, S.D Dombo University, and UHAS have already benefited from such budgetary allocations.
“TaTU must be in a better state and should be in better place.In the coming years, next year, I intend through Getfund, and I have the support and blessings of the President, we will allocate 10 million Ghana Cedis to each of the distressed technical Universities”.
Meanwhile, the Minister also pledge to donate 21 desktop computers in the next 21 days to the school, aimed at equipping the ICT Laboratory of the school.
Story by: Inusah Dondaliya
