Engineers In Edo Want A Better Ways To Move Industry Forward...Vows To Curb Quacks Away From The Body

Engineers In Edo Want A Better Ways To Move Industry Forward

...Vows To Curb Quacks Away From The Body

Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin

Following the consistent collaspsed of building structures, roads and bridges in the State and Nigeria, the Edo state branch of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), has chatted a new ways, method to brainstormed on how to enhance the profession to prevent the incessant falling of buildings in Edo state.

The body also agreed on the decision to do so as to bring sanity to the industry in an event organzied by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Benin Branch, at the inauguration Ceremony of the Prevention , Investigation and Failure Analysis Committee (PIFAC), in the state.

They equally vowed to flust out quacks from the association to enable them move forward and advance according to the modern trends of the society, and the world at large.

The NSE therefore blamed government at all levels for hiring and employing ineffective and inexperience engineers, which the Engineer experts felt also lead to the constant collaspsed of building structures, bridges and roads across the state.

Admonishing the chairman and other members of the Committee, former Chairman Nigerian Society of Engineers, Engr. (Dr.) Victor Obanor, agreed with the present State Chairman that there is need to flush out quacks from the profession. 

 Engr. Victor Obanor, who is a Permanent Secretary, Edo State Government Electricity  Regulatory Commission, and a member of the Advisory Board to PIFAC, said it is a great privilege to serve at the Board at a higher capacity.

 He said, " in fact, PIFAC is a body proactively to ensure sanity is restore to the building industry in the state and Nigeria.  We want a situation whereby we can intervene before the failure happens.

" Not after the failure has happened before we start looking for the next solutions. I agreed with the Edo state Chairman of NSE that there is need to flush out quacks away from the industry.

"NSE does not encourages quackery for the derrement of the professional integrity. We discover that a lot of persons are parading themselves, as engineers in the State . 

"Those quacks did not really belong to our profession. We want to fish them out, and ensure the standard are restore. We want to also ensure quality materials are injected into the building industry.

" So that the high state of failure will reduce and we can move forward. So that the risk will be brought to the bearest minimum. It is the intention of the Committee to create the needed security through Infrastructural integrity to be restored, that is our basic aims," Engr. Obanor stressed.

 Speaking when assuring the Engineers on how to carry out their work , the Chairman of the Committee, Engr. Dr. Ebuka Nwankwo, said what they are going to do is to advise the governments, stakeholders in the building industry and the society the best ways to build.

He said," This is an opportunity to serve the society. You know the impact and the  implication of failures are much. The economy loss, loss of lives and properties, investment property, even the tax payers money.

" So our job now is to take the place we should take in the society to advise governments, the public and all stakeholders in the environments.

" So what we are going to do now is to make our voice heard. Advise the public and stakeholders, go around to know if you have cases concerning  Infrastructural projects, let us know. We have the skills, expertise and capacity to do so.

" When we look at those things and advise you and the owners of the projects, and also advise governments at large. So that at the end of the day, cases of Engineering failure will be reduced. Be it Mechincal Engineering, Civil Engineering and Petroluem Engineering will be reduce to the bearest minimum level.

In an interview with the media after the occasion, the Chairman of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Benin Branch, Engr. Evukowhiroro Ojegba decried the lost of lives in many building sites in Edo state and Nigeria in general.

He said," There is a lot of failure and loss of lives in building structures in the society. The NSE has decided to come out strong to advocate more on the unnecessary failures that are going on in the state and over the country.

" This instructions are coming from our National headquarters, from the President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, who had instructed all chairmen to set up PIFAC. PIFAC means, the Prevention, Investigation and Faliure Analysis Committee, so that we would be able to prevent failure and other accidents that will result from failure of structures, production and others.

" The Committee set up and inaugurated today will be guided by the laws that are guiding the body. There is a bylaw that is guiding the body, and some of these rules are to ensure they do analysis to prevent failures. And whenever we have failures, they conduct investigation to know the root cause of the matter.

" The major aspect of Engineer is that Engineers should be in the site to prevent failures. Apart from that, one of their major roles is to ensure we flush out from Edo state quackery. Governments should not engage people that are not Engineers. Is unprofessional you see a lot of quacks parading themselves as Engineers.

" We have been at the back for so long, but this time around we are moving forward. For those who parade themselves as Engineers, and they are not we will make our recommendations know to the governments and the bodies that would carry out the appropriate sanctions ," Engr. Ojegba added.