Engineers Want FG To Embrace PPP For $3.1trn Infrastructure Funding — Leadership Newspaper

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Engineers have called on the federal government to fully embrace Public Private Partnership (PPP) as a panacea for funding the $3.1 trillion infrastructure gap.

This was the decision reached at the 3rd College of Fellows roundtable symposium, organised by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) with the theme: “Involvement of Private Sector in the Procurement of Public Infrastructure through Public Private Partnership.”

Declaring the event open in Abuja yesterday, the president of NSE, Engr. Adekunle Mokuolu, was hopeful that in the next 50 years that the Society would have provided solutions to the yearnings of Nigerians, stating the need to embrace fundamental attitude in order to implement the vision.

He harped on strong collaboration between fellows in the public service and private sector, with a view to proffering solution to the endemic problems bedeviling Nigeria.

The president challenged fellows to deploy their intellectual resources to make the country a better place…



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