 The Minister of Transportation Rotsimi Amechi says he's ready to listen, learn and implement what the private sector brings to the table, to make it viable. The minister stated this during a webinar organised by International Facility Services in celebration of the World Facility Management Day. Plus the Africa's correspondence destiny more and more on it at the event and now reports. The webinar which centred on preservation of public infrastructure with specific attention to rail and ports. Minister of Transportation Rotsimi Amechi says currently there is no budget allocation to fund maintenance of these national assets, arguing that absence of this increases the cost of doing business. Most of the speakers highlight poor maintenance culture as the bane of dilapidated infrastructure all across the country, saying it requires commitment from both government and private sector to speak out against some saboteurs stealing rail bars or any public infrastructure. Others say it is not right for government to do everything as private sector maintenance is required. The true position is very simple. Remember in Nigeria I remember when we were kids the public work department is an integral part of the ministries of work in Nigeria. It's still there to the best of my knowledge and what happens then if there is a problem they fix the rules and that must have come from a maintenance budget. And yet I don't do one little bit of maintenance, I have no maintenance engineers, I don't spend any money on maintenance, instead I have a very smart contract with the private sector to design and build and operate and ultimately transfer fully maintained rail assets. This is obviously all about industrialization. If we want to maintain our assets, if we want to build them even adequately we need to industrialize and again that ties into a need for private sector participation to increase tenfold from where we are now. Rotimiameichi says opportunity was given to the private sector to partner with building hotels and malls and terminals but nobody showed up. In response the minister says he is ready to listen, learn and implement the productivity of the private sector. Last why is there no maintenance on the future of private sector? There are no projects for maintenance, I have never seen the budget of Nigeria that since I became a minister and I have not seen it, it has helped me for maintenance because even the government has been to provide them money for maintenance. I can argue in the minister of transport that I have a non-niverse project on the railways that says it is the railways to build, build, build and then we order the railways projects. Stakeholders here all agree that it is important to build a national consciousness in maintaining assets only when this approach is adopted. The discursions and other participants may have to retable this discourse again. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa.