Speaking at the second edition of facility management advocacy day in Lagos, Mr Segun Adebayo, the president of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), Nigeria Chapter, has called for effective maintenance and sustainable management of public facilities and infrastructure in the country.
Adebayo said that the advocacy day was created to promote strategic conversations on public issues between critical stakeholders.
Director Federal Public Asset Management, who was speaking on behalf of Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, added that public facilities and infrastructure development were indicators of the quality of governance as well as among the bases of assessing the achievements of a government.
Fashola insisted that sustainable cities and communities are the 11th of the 17th Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“It identifies sustainable infrastructure and facility management as a pertinent index that instigates response to sustainability as a universal code to preserve what you have for tomorrow’s generation and how to preserve what you have for tomorrow’s generation through continuous maintenance of existing public facilities and infrastructure,” said Fashola.
“It is worthy to note that the management of public facilities and infrastructure enhances performance, durability, and sustainability across the entire infrastructure from roads, office buildings, accommodation, industrial buildings, hospitals, among others.”
Fashola added that the Federal Government was working on the issue of infrastructure gaps prevalent in all sectors of the Nigerian economy. He said the government was committed to addressing the problem through the development of the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan (NIMP).
