The founder of Zeetin Engineering, Azibaola Robert, had blamed poor infrastructural development, particularly in Science and Technology in most African countries, on poor innovative and indigenous-driven ideas.
Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday while receiving an award from the International Institute of Chartered Educational Practitioners, IICEP, for ‘Outstanding Performance in Innovation, Creativity and Economic Empowerment’, Robert noted that technology remain a major driving force for industrization in Nigeria and Africa at large.
He urged the Nigerian Government, and other African governments, and engineers to demonstrate indepth seriousness in addressing the challenge of poor infrastructures.
According to him, the slow pace of progress in indigenously-driven innovations in science and technology as being responsible for the sordid state of infrastructural development of African countries, and urged governments, engineers to demonstrate more seriousness in addressing the challenge.
He bemoaned the attitude of Africans towards innovation which he claimed is the bane of the region’s development, at a time when the world hits fifth and sixth industrial revolution stage.
He warned that Africa should not be limited to a region of consumption, but must able to make inventions that are of consequential value.
“Nigerians, being the most populous black nation in the world, “it is our responsibility to show example by doing certain things with the use of technology as this will make Africans proud anywhere, they go as being part of those that are helping in the advancement of the world.
“Therefore, we need people with their thinking hats, people who with gloves and not politicians, we need people who will wear their helmets and are able to do things”, he stated.
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