Facility Managers in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to make budgetary allocations for supporting capital expenditure. This, according to the managers would reduce the incidence of poor handling of both government and private infrastructural facilities in the country.
The essence according to them is to enable government and other Public sector managers reap adequate benefits from the billions spent on Public infrastructural facilities.
Besides, the managers at the World Facility Management commemorative event on Wednesday said that apart from the budgetary provisions for maintenance of Public infrastructure, they are determined to pull their membership together to enable them strategically engage the government on issues affecting maintenance and general facility management in the country.
Stephen Jagun,the Steering committee Chairman for the facility Management initiative said that the members are focused as at now in developing capacity and growing the professional status of members.
“The focus is to ensure that everyone in the profession develops capacity, add value in the profession and develop the economy as well as ensuring that there is a positive experience from people whose facilities are managed “he said.
Paul,Erubami,a key member of the facility management initiative explained further that the focus of the group is to pull members together and ensure they abide by global best proactices.
“We want to galvanise our members to work with globally acceptably norms. We are working also to ensure we abide by global best practices .We are focused on building capacity and inculcating global best practices,using standards”
Collins Osaimen,a certified facility manager said at the event that the platform would also enable facility managers across the country to come under a platform to engage the government on facility management issues.
He said,”It is worrisome that there is no maintenance budget for the Capital Expenditure in the country .It is worrisome that we have to shut down the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport recently, which is due largely to poor Maintenance culture of the facility, and if we are not careful, it could repeat again”
