The Chief Executive Officer, Max-Migold, Paul Erubami, has said that an effective facility management sector can stem the tide of building collapse in Nigeria.
To achieve this, he explained that Nigeria’s facility management sector needs nothing less than 250,000 facility managers to stem the rampant building collapse.
Erubami, who is also the Head of Faculty, Facility Management Master Craft Diploma, in a statement on Monday, said Nigeria needs to take the training of people who are in charge of maintenance seriously.
“Nigeria needs nothing less than 250,000 professionally trained facility managers and as we speak now in the country, we don’t even have up to 10,000. We are struggling to meet 10,000 and we need a minimum of 250,000 and that is just the private sector.
“If we add all the local government, state government, military infrastructure, aviation, and the federal government, we are talking about another 500,000 personnel and this is more reasons why the government needs to take training of people who are in charge of maintenance seriously,” he said.
He advised the government to speak with professionals like the Association of Facility Management in Nigeria to come up with training programs for all public officers.
“It starts with knowledge; it starts with skills and these are how to put the right processes in place,” Erubami added.
According to him, facility management is a movement that needs to be advocated for, both in the public and private sectors to have a safe environment.
He said, “We have to stem brain drain, building collapse, and issues of dilapidation, and build a society where facilities and maintenance should be looked at with a lifecycle mindset.”