Siemens positioning for better days ahead
Siemens Nigeria Limited is positioning to take full advantage of situation when the fortunes of Nigeria turns around after the recession with the launch of “Ingenuity for Life,” aimed at ensuring the development of local partners that can add value to the economy.
Apart from this, the global energy provider is also partnering the Lagos State government in critical area of power infrastructure so as to help achieve its goal of “Light up Lagos”, a project being promoted by the government to ensure that all the nooks and crannies are not only electrified but also have stable power supply.
The company’s innovation is intended to be achieved through fixing and building things, teaching, advising, transferring technology, sharing technology, and technological best practices.
The company said its commitment to the country remains unwavering despite the challenges she is facing as “Nigeria Siemens” is here for long time; “when things are turned around, we want to be here fixing things, building things, teaching, advising, transferring technology, sharing technology, technological best practices”.
According to Onyeche Tifase, managing director and chief executive of Siemens Nigeria Limited, the new ground statement “ingenuity for life” has so aptly described and expressed what drives the company, “what we do, what we are into , what we create and the added value we create for our customers, employees, partners and the society at large.
Ingenuity, she said, is at the heart of everything Siemens does. So the word ingenuity for the company implies innovative engineering, ingenious and unity, unity with its customers, partners, shareholders and stakeholders to deliver excellence solution and leave positive impact on society at large.
“We want to be here developing local partners so that they can add value as Nigerian companies”, she said.
Siemens, she said, is not just a supplier of manufactured products, but a partner and adviser to the government and to the private industries and educational institutions because the challenge we are facing today are core issues that are based on years and decades of neglect, they are consequences of not doing the right things we should have done before.
Siemens is today investing beyond what it would have done in the past years which means what we are facing today as a country has made others to become more ingenious, creative, innovative, risk taking, risk taking but with a clear aim in mind and result driven approach.
Ingenuity for life relates to “our goal in the society and Siemens ability to make real what matters through the creation and adoptions of high end technologies that address issues across how water, healthcare ,education, transport, manufacturing, basic infrastructure and other things. Ingenuity for life in summary is unrelenting drive and promise to create access for customers and employees and society and is premised on the Siemens values of innovation, excellence and responsibilities”.
Lagos state government through the Oladeji Williams, Special Assistant to the Governor on Energy who represented the state commissioner for Energy while acknowledging the launching of the new Siemens brand claim – “Ingenuity for Life” said: “We are also very eager to leverage Siemens vast knowledge and experience and closing the energy sector gap particular with regards to the Lagos State Energy Development policy also referred to as “Light Up Lagos’.
Light Up Lagos is a turnkey policy of the Lagos State Government to deliver constant, safe and reliable energy to the metropolis by powering homes, businesses and public facilities with the aim of complementing security, improving quality of living and ensuring sustainable socioeconomic development within its borders.
The components of our Light-Up-Lagos Energy Development Policy include:
• Embedded Power – working with energy stakeholders to ensure 24/power within Lagos
• Community Electrification Intervention – upgrading or installing new on and off grid power infrastructure that energize Lagos communities
• Street lighting – improving illumination, night time economic activities and security across the state.
He said, clearly, these components afford huge partnership opportunities with global energy solutions providers such as Siemens with the state government, in achieving its Energy Development objectives. “We have the utmost confidence that just like the new brand claim “Ingenuity for Life” that you will bring innovation to bear in creating value for Lagos”.
However, with the claims of investment, the company said it has made one of the stakeholders in the power sector, Charles Akhigbe, managing director and chief executive officer of Atlantique Marine and Engineering Service Limited, has advised the company that it should do more than just providing services in the country but to also set up companies that manufacture some of the equipment that it is supplying other companies in the country.
“Siemens should do more than just providing services but engage in real manufacturing of equipment which would ensure that more Nigerians are gainfully employed”, he stressed.
Olusola Bello