The Nigeria Institution of Surveyors, (NIS) has appeal to governments at all levels to patronize indigenous professional surveyors in the country while urging them to formulate policies that will checkmate incessant collapse of building in the country.
“The National and State Assemblies and other relevant legislative organs should formulate appropriate policies and strengthen the enforcement of applicable laws on erection of the building and other infrastructures to check the incessant occurrences of cases of building collapse all over the country to safeguard the loss of life and properties”.
NIS National President, Surv. Dr. Kayode Oluwamotemi stated this during the annual general meeting/conference of the association held in Ado-Ekiti.
The 56th AGM focuses on ‘Mapping Policies, Strategies And Spatial Infrastructure For Sustainable Development In Nigeria”.
Speaking further, he urged government and the private sectors to incorporate the services of relevant surveying practitioners in the discharge of crucial surveying and geospatial components of any natural resource and infrastructure developments in the country while pointing out the need for the review of the existing government policies on surveying and mapping to cover areas that have been neglected.
The NIS president further charged the government to adequately fund the training institutions established to train surveyors in the country.
Speaking further, “The Nigerian Institution of Surveyors, Surveyors Council of Nigeria, Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation, and other organizations should be gender sensitive in any admission, employment, appointment, and other activities of surveying and Geo-Informatics to discourage gender disparity in the profession.
“Our government has not been patronizing our surveyors; government needs to stop its activities of patronizing non indigenes at the expense of the indigenous citizens. There is nothing in surveying and mapping that Nigeria surveyor cannot do. When we go for international conferences, these same white men appreciate our contributions to solving their mapping problems.
“There is need for the mapping of the entire landscape of the country in order to tackle insecurity and end the upsurge of armed bandits attacking and killings innocent people”.
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