Umo Eno Challenge COREN at 31st Engineering Assembly
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno has asked Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) to enforce discipline and be ready to sanction erring professionals with repeated cases of contraption to serve as deterrent and boost the morale of compliant practitioners.
Pastor Eno stated this yesterday at the ongoing 31st Engineering Assembly holding at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, on the theme, “Entrenching and Strengthening Engineering Practitioners’ Code of Conduct for Resilient Engineering Practice in Nigeria”.
The Governor who was invited to speak at the event as special guest of honour, was represented by the State Commissioner for Power, Engr Camillus Umoh. The 3-day event is meant to sharpen the skills of Engineering practitioners in the built environment, considered as a catalyst for sustainable national infrastructure development.
The Governor’s representative underscored the need for order, if organizations must operate optimally, adding that the absence of order amount to a call for anarchy.
“Codes of Engineering practice, confer order and allow for development control. They provide the framework for the practice of Engineering in carrying out the development agenda in society” the Governor had hinted.
He listed requirements needed to deliver the pertinent development imperative to include a legal and legislative framework in support of the required statutes thereto, knowledge by the practitioners of the expectations through a handbook, procedural guide, discipline and consistency of application at all times.
Engr. Umoh among other requirements emphasized the need to create awareness to the receiving public of the base requirements as well as structure and capacity to implement sanctions where deviations occur.
“For us as Government, we cede the technical role responsibilities to the MDAs where Engineering skillset resides; Works, Power, Industries and Petroleum Resources. In each of these hubs, there exists an internal ombudsman mechanism for compliance monitoring and assurance roles” he noted.
The Commissioner informed participants at the conference led by the President of COREN, Engr. S. Z. Abubakar, that Akwa Ibom State Government have done well to engage and involve build/infrastructures environment professionals in delivery of its democracy dividends through infrastructures and facility assets in the basket of socio-economic benefits for the people.
Other attendees from Akwa Ibom State were the MD/CEO of Hensek Integrated Services Limited, Engr. Uwem Okoko, the
President, National Association of Technological Engineers, (NATE) Engr. Dominic Udoatan, and the HOD, Electrical Engineering Department, AkwaPoly, Engr. Nsikak Afia.
The highpoint of the event for Team Akwa Ibom was the presentation of an award to Mr. Israel Akpan, a student of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osura, who earned the award for designing a remote controlled File Cabinet System.
