DANGOTE Trains Quality Block Makers To Stem Building Collapse — Official
Olorunfemi Ojo
Regional Manager, Marketing Services of Dangote Cement Plc., Mr Johnson Olaniyi, said on Wednesday the company was training quality block makers to stem incidents of building collapse.
Olaniyi told news men in Lagos that training quality block makers was the right way to get the right result.
“We have now discovered that majority of the so-called block moulders are just sand mixers because they do not know anything about the industry.
“We have also discovered that the quality of sands determines the quality of the blocks they are moulding.
“And this is very challenging because in some locations they have good sand, in other locations they have fairly good and very bad sand, adding that there is no way you can standardise the quality of your blocks, if there are no certain things we are going to use to measure it. These are very major problems.”
Furthermore he said, “we discovered that in some areas, if you asked them how many they are getting per bag they just give you a figure.
“But go and do the demonstration, you discover that the figure they are giving to you is at variance with what they are producing.”
According to him, the company assembled the block makers at some locations to give them theoretical training through power point presentation and, thereafter, take them to the field for practical demonstration.
Olaniyi said, the company will go back to those they have trained after some time to ascertain that they are conforming with what they have learnt.