The task of securing the Plateau State University (PLASU), Bokkos community remains a top priority for the Shedrach Best led administration.

Acting Vice Chancellor Plateau state University Bokkos Professor Shedrack Best reiterated his commitment when he received officials from the department of physical infrastructure of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND.

Led by Nancy Callistus, the team took a tour of some infrastructure including the uncompleted and collapsing perimeter fence of the university.

Our correspondent learned that, while informing the Acting Vice Chancellor, team leader Nancy Callistus said, they were in the university as a response to a letter to the Fund requesting for an urgent intervention from the fund in respect to addressing insecurity in the university through the fencing of the school as well as other security apparatus.

"So the fund asked us to come to just do three things,to ascertain the level of dilapidation of the parameter fence,which you claimed,you do not have and to determine the dilapidation of the fence as well as the approximate cost associated with the project,so the fund has asked us to come today to see first hand,what you have on ground but having familiar with security challenges especially plateau state,so they feel can be supported'

In his remark, the Vice Chancellor Professor Shedrack  Best said one critical issue his administration will not compromise is the safety of students, staff and the entire institution, hence the need to solicit the urgent intervention of TETFUND.

"And by the grace of God you will see what we are talking about but we want you to see more than what we are talking about because you are from TETFUND and because you are also from physical infrastructure department we will show you some more things,so that when you are discussing in TETFUND you will not forget plateau state University.lets register our profound association as a university to the fund for all the support we have received like any public universities in Nigeria,our story will not be complete and i believe that,we will not be standing on our feet,if not because of the fund and  each time we have to interact with you we can not fail to register this  appreciation."

The Acting Vice Chancellor Professor Shedrack Best alongside some management staff of the university later led the visiting team to see the collapsing parameter fence as well as the uncompleted portion of the fence which has remained a threat to the university giving hoodlums unfettered access to the school. 

As a temporary measure the Vice Chancellor had put in measures by positioning officers of the Operation Safe  Haven to beef up security following the recent ugly development.

It would be recalled that the Visitor of the Institution and State Governor Caleb Mutfwang had paid a visit to management of TETFUND in Abuja requesting an immediate intervention  regarding the security situation of the University.

In another development the university received in audience a team from the Education Support services department of the TETFUND  where they presented two journals, African Journal of Research and Management Science (AJORMS)  and An Advocacy and publicity Compendium Year 2011-2022 Plateau state University Bokkos published by the  University and sponsored by TETFUND.

The Acting Vice Chancellor Professor Shedrack Best  said '..we are appreciative of TETFUND,we are just seventeen years old and already looking older than our years, because TETFUND had lifted us.'

The team commended the quality and standard of the published Journals and assured of the funds' support.