By Nneka Nwogwugwu
President Muhammadu Buhari, has signed into law Executive Order 11 on national public buildings maintenance.
Speaking shortly before appending his signature, President Buhari directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, to set up maintenance departments in line with the provisions of the new Executive Order.
He said the order gave legal backing to the country’s national maintenance policy, following its earlier approval by the FEC, adding that government had already started utilising the policy to give face lift to some of its buildings, such as federal secretariat, Abuja and 24 others spread across the country.
He said as quoted by Vanguard, “Since the approval of the policy by the Federal Executive Council, the Federal Government has consciously started the implementation of maintenance of strategic facilities like the federal secretariat Abuja and federal secretariats in 24 states of the federation, where at least 40 people are now daily employed in each of those 24 secretariats.
“The office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation has approved the establishment of a department of federal public assets maintenance as a vital step in support of the implementation of this national policy, which is unprecedented in our history and approach to maintenance.”
