The National Chairman, Association Of Private Practising Surveyor of Nigeria (APPSN), Surv. Abayomi Bobadoye has advised surveyors in the country to shun act indiscipline and corruption and make a good survey practice that would deliver good, quality services, timely and diligently to their clients, while in return gets economically rewarding benefit for services rendered.
Surv. Bobadoye made this submission at the APPSN Quarterly National Assembly by Delegate and Inauguration of its new National Executive Members, held at Surveyors’ House, Ijeja, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
He said that as co-manager of the Nigerian economy, they should work with other colleagues in Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON) its regulatory body, Nigeria Institute of Surveys (NIS) its professional body and the office of the Surveyor’s General of their various states, especially when the need arises to allow them achieve their aims and objectives.
“You see, launching of surveying into construction industry, we shall all work with SURCON, NIS and office of the Surveyor’s General to get survey products with the document for procurement in construction and engineering projects”, Bobadoye said
Bobadoye, reminded the executive council members of the importance of the profession they have chosen to national development, urged them to hold their head high as they go into the society to practice and be good ambassador of the profession.
“Surveying profession is desirous of exactitude and it is ubiquitous such that the country or anywhere you work relies so much on you because you are the only professional on the earth surface that tells the others where, and when a thing happened”, he added
He said that implementation of all Survey Laws and Regulations that would enhance good and profitable practice underway, noting that they should all work to ensure the implementation of these Laws and Regulations, especially for the benefits of all Surveyors in the country.
According to him; “Pursuance to making APPSN a member of SURCON Council, our proposal has been forwarded to NIS Council to be included in the proposed amendment of the SURCON Act, and inclusion of APPSN in the membership of the SURCON Ethics, which also to be addressed, so as to pursue robust and economically rewarding survey practice of our dream”.
In his welcome address, the Ogun State Chairman of the Association, Surv. Adewale Oluwafemi said that APPSN was established to take care of the professional practice and welfare of its members, noting that they have been struggling to take absolute control of their profession.
He said that inadequate number of Surveyors in the country led to the training of Survey Assistants by Private Survey Practitioners of old, saying that the consequence was that they struggle to deal with nowadays.
“Sometimes in the past, in many states, steps were taken to introduce the payment of Mandatory Deposit for each job we do, this went a long way into stabilising our negotiating power and consequently our final renumeration”, Oluwafemi lamented
He said all attempt to improve on this system in some states had culminated in a massive reduction of the control of their earning to the extent that offer of payment of half or less that half of the Mandatory Deposit System (MDS) was the order of the day.
He appreciated the Ogun state government for its collaboration with APPSN for a veritable partner in progress in the survey community as well as NIS administration in the state, noting that they were enjoying a tremendous cooperation from them, as they can hardly separate NIS actions from that of APPSN.
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