The Federal Government has said that the implementation of its new National Public Buildings Maintenance Policy would empower Nigerians, especially artisans and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said this while briefing newsmen on the National Infrastructure Maintenance Framework for Public Buildings on Thursday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that the National Public Buildings Maintenance Policy seeks to provide guiding principles for the maintenance and repairs of public buildings nationwide.
It is also charged with the responsibility of repairing such related assets nationwide, in compliance with extant regulations.
Fashola said that the Federal Executive Council on Jan. 9 approved the National Maintenance Framework for Public Buildings.
He said the Council was persuaded to accept that while skill training and vocational centres existed nationwide for training artisans, there was lack of national policy for the practice of these vocations to be economically worthwhile on a sustainable basis.
Fashola said that under the implementation of the policy, sites assessment and valuation of the affected buildings would be conducted; measurement and data would also be collated.
