‘Nigeria infrastructure poses danger to public’

The death of the Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi is testimony to the dangerous state of Nigeria’s infrastructure, the President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Otis Anyaeji   in Abuja. While speaking on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the NSE president recently said Nigeria infrastructure score is E2, meaning that “the present condition […]

The death of the Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi is testimony to the dangerous state of Nigeria’s infrastructure, the President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Otis Anyaeji   in Abuja.
While speaking on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the NSE president recently said Nigeria infrastructure score is E2, meaning that “the present condition of our national infrastructure across all sectors is a threat to public safety”.
He stated, “There shouldn’t be even one pot hole on a road – they shouldn’t be there at all or it shouldn’t be a road,” adding that what happened to the minister equally happened to a General in the Nigerian army.
A moment silence was observed for the late Ocholi.
Anyaeji said Ocholi, though a lawyer was a friend of engineers.
He lamented that Nigeria which should have 50,000mw of electricity has around 2,000mw, saying there is no standard hospital in Nigeria – not even the National Hostpital in Abuja is standard.
“The smallest medical facility in Houston [USA] is bigger than the National Hospital,” he noted.
He decried exclusion of engineers from the scene saying lawyers and economists are put in critical areas engineers should have been.
The NSE president presented to journalists Nigeria Infrastructure Report Card which was launched during NSE annual conference in Akure, Ondo State last Noverber urging policymakers to give attention to it as a way of tackling the country’s “serious infrastructure deficit”.