Ali Baba spoke the truth in this post he wrote on his IG account about the maintenance culture in Nigeria. Please read.
One thing that will continue to cost us money in Nigeria is the absence of MAINTENANCE CULTURE. We do not have the habit of building for the future. In other words, out developments are not anticipatory. We do not build roads by factoring in that traffic will grow.
We do not build schools that take into consideration the number of students in 5, 10 or 15yrs. Our hospitals can not handle the number of patients that are wheeled in. Our sports facilities only get attention when a sporting tournament is coming our way. We can not prepare for an Olympics meet... Even with a 4 year advance notice. We know pensions will be paid, but wait until the people protest before something is done. Yet when money is budgeted for a certain project, people will sit in a living room, divert it to achieve political power. Okay... Think about it, how long ago was Onitsha Bridge built? 1964-1965. By the Dumez group. The department of statistics had the number of vehicles that used Onitsha bridge in 1973 as 200 every month. And back then, vehicles were a rarity. Now you can have 600 motionless vehicles on the bridge, in one position, for as long as 2 hours. Has the government thought it urgent to build another bridge since. Interestingly, the same amount that is spent on an election or stolen in the name of prosecuting a war, can build the bridge. How long did it take Fashola to build Lekki/ IKOYI bridge? Go to London and see how they patch their roads. As soon as they see a pot hole, it's fixed. A stitch in time saves 9!!! But in Nigeria we don have a maintenance culture. We wait till it is totally bad and starts to inconvenience everybody to do something. That is what brought Calabar/UYO expressway to where people express wailing! If you care for what you have people will not know how long you have had it. Because it will be in top shape.
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Hmmm we stil hv a long way to go.
Talking too much lately!
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AliBaba, we see you. We feel you. There is too too much infrastructure decay. Asaba to Illah is horrible, Enugu to Onitsha is Hell. Onitsha bridge would fall. Uyo calabar road is a river and valleys, horrible. God give you Joy and Happiness, AliBaba. I respect you a lot. Just be careful with this very sensitive 'dont ask or tell me' administration, their forceful explanations for everything and perchance for creating enemies when people mourn in pain instead of jumping with smile in pain to their deceit or Ali and the Angel
Tell them, let them hear. The oldest roads in Nigeria Last longer than the so-called political hi-tech roads. Our leaders needs prayers bro. However, young and productive Nigerians should change their mentality towards their mandate. If you want to buy a car or build a house from election bribery and you want your representative to still build you good road, then chasing shadow is what you are doing. Let's not sell our mandate, let's vote for credibility.
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Very well spoken.., them no dey hear o
True talk
We simply don't have a maintenance culture because we have a corruption culture
Why build the bridge when you can share the money?
Why build schools when you can share the money and send your kids to private schools?
Why build the hospital when you don't have to use it? Buy a private jet instead and fly abroad for treatment
Must I say more?
Our leaders are greedy, heartless and corrupt to the core.
Only God can help us
The few who try to work are castigated by their godfathers and frustrated into despair and finally succumb to the baying crowds of corruption
Let's be our own government, we are represented by a crowd of people who have little interest in our progress
He's made a strong point.. We Nigerians fail to maintain d tins we have. We wait until it's deteriorated so bad to start, where it could have cost less if monthly or annual maintenance is being carried out... Whenever I'm on top of that Onitsha bridge I use to have chills and all cos d bridge is carrying more than it was stipulated to.... GOD bless Nigeria!
He is right on dis one. Linda take note!
Dats true...very true
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WE NEED A CULTURAL REVOLUTION ... WE VIRTUALLY HAVE NO "STANDARDS",: NO MORAL STANDARDS, NO SOCIAL STANDARDS, NO ACADEMIC, NO OPERATIONAL STANDARDS, NO COMMUNICATION STANDARDS ETC....
THE FIRST THING IS TO MOVE BEYOND "WHAT IS DONE" AND BEGIN TO THINK OF "THE STANDARDS WITH WHICH IT IS DONE"....
CIVILIZATION ACTUALLY COMES WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO ADOPT HIGHER STANDARDS.
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU NOTICE ABOUT DEVELOPED SOCIETIES (APART FROM THE BEAUTIFUL INFRASTRUCTURE) IS THE WAY THINGS ARE DONE.
WHEN EXCELLENCE IS ENFORCED, THEN THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT. ONE OF THE FIRST SIGNS OF POVERTY IS MEDIOCRITY....(I CAN PREDICT YOUR FUTURE BY THE LEVEL OF ATTENTION YOU GIVE TO WHAT YOU DO).
oya lib let us pray for Nigeria
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We need building culture abegi, nothing to maintain anymore.. road no dey, skuls no dey..
Lack of maintenance culture is Nigeria's culture
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True words. But still no solution
True talk
Well said. The only part I disagree with u is where u said ONLY GOD CAN HELP US. Erase that thought bc God will not help us, WE MUST HELP OURSELVES. God blessed us wt everything to excel but we keep bungling things, HE has removed HIS hands from our mata.
We had Ekweremadu, Emeka Ihedioha, Okonjo-Iwella, Pius Anyim, Stella Oduah, Nyesom Wike Pres.Jonathan etc, and they couldn't build a second River Niger bridge. Just SMH.
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Ali Baba, thank you for your thoughts but I simply degree with the phrase "Nigeria lacks Maintenance culture". First, we need to consider what maintenance is all about, and it is about preserving a condition or situation, In addition to this, International Facilities Management Association (IFMA) identified Four (4) Major types of Maintenance which are; Preventive, Corrective, Breakdown and Predictive Maintenance. I'll only consider one of the aforementioned types of Maintenance which Breakdown, the others are explains themselves based on their names. Breakdown Maintenance is a type of Maintenance that is carried out when an equipment or a system fails, otherwise called "run to failure" maintenance. This means no form of care and concern is shown to this system until it fails or gets to a discomfort state. We can see this in our infrastructures and public systems because down to the local government they do not carry out Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) exercise, this is not their culture (norms, attitude or way of life). They rather allow it to breakdown, then re-award it as a contract, and then corruption process reach its summit. Therefore, let us change that statement that Nigerians lack Maintenance Culture, we do have one and it is called Breakdown or run to failure culture. Besides, we can change this culture if we all play our own path by taking ownership of the responsibilities given to us in our locals. What we need as a nation is to embrace Facilities Management which is a profession that encompass multiple discipline to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology (www.ifma.org) and (www.bifm.org.uk) I have so much to add, but I would just stop here so that other give their own view and we can all share knowledge. You can get more at www.filmo-group.com and www.fmtalk360.com.
REALLY???
Nigeria is confused. Ali baba, leave our leaders thy want it to collapse and kill poeple before thy do anything.
Nigerians have no maintenance culture. Take a good look at private/residential buildings they are all in bad shape. Go to any Nigerians restaurants/store abroad it's all in bad shape and dirty
The irony is that as he was probably typing this, a bridge was collapsing in England. Lol
So true
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