Fashola Urges Engineers To Step Up
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has called on Nigerian Engineers gear themselves up towards development.
Fashola said this in Abuja when he hosted a delegation of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).
He blamed Nigerian engineers for creating the vacuum that made the Federal Government to patronize foreign contractors.
The Minister also attributed the patronage of foreign contractors to the failure of Nigerian engineering firms to bid for projects.
“If there was no vacuum, there would not be foreign engineering consultants and contractors in Nigeria.”
“Unless we look in the mirror and tell ourselves that we honestly do not like what we see, it will not change.”
“I can tell you from experience when I was a state governor, that when I advertised for rail project, no Nigerian firm bidded for it.”
“Government will not stop the development of the country, if you are not ready.”
“While we point a finger at government, we must also point the same fingers at ourselves. Foreign companies doing business in Nigeria are privately owned.”
Fashola Tasks On Capacity Building
Furthermore, Fashola advised the engineers to accept their deficiencies and build their capacities to be able to compete with foreign firms.
Meanwhile, the minister decried what he called the over legislation of procurement process. He called for a review, to enhance speedy development of infrastructure in the country.
“In a developing economy like Nigeria, I think that we have over-legislated our procurement process.”
“Some of the fast track procurement systems that we need, given also our weather circle, are still in the way of project intervention to deliver infrastructure.
“Let us do a review and see what we have delivered and look back at 20 years ago when all these procurement laws were not there what we achieved and measure them.
“I think that in my personal view, we have over-legislated procurement process to our detriment.”
In his remark, NSE President Otis Anyaeji called for patronage of local engineers. He also recommends the use of indigenous materials for the execution of government projects.
He pledged the commitment of the society to partner the Federal Government to deliver on its mandate to Nigerians
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