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NSE Calls For Review On Economic, Technological Development Sectors

The President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Eng. Oliver Otis Anyaeji has said that engineers are ideally suited to advocate feasible solutions to … Continue reading NSE Calls For Review On Economic, Technological Development Sectors


The President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Eng. Oliver Otis Anyaeji has said that engineers are ideally suited to advocate feasible solutions to problems faced by the society, if they are involved in legislating the relevant technological solutions.

Speaking at Umuahia, during a public lecture, Anyaeji said that due to the engineers’ ethical standards, engineers can and will be held to higher standards than the stereotyped politicians, so as to elicit more trust from the public.

The president who was represented by his Vice President, Engineer Mrs. Ishidi Yohanna Edith, stated that engineers must sustain and continually monitor policies and programmes affecting critical sectors of the nation’s economy, for the purpose of engineering input and liaise with relevant stakeholders from public and private sectors to ensure coordinated action for the country’s sustainable development.

In his words, “At this auspicious occasion, I expressed the regret with regards to a system of public office selection and appointment pattern that has shown a deliberate and conscious scheme to keep engineers out of the public policy spaces in both the executive and legislative arms of government.”

Delivering a lecture titled: “Engineers In Governance The Panacea For Economic And Technological Development In Nigeria”, the NSE Vice President, Engr. Mrs.
Ishidi Yohanna Edith said transformational leaders are urgently needed in Nigeria for economic and technological advancement.

She lamented that the Nigerian system lacks checks and balances and the people equally lack the freedom to challenge the leadership, pointing out that major challenges of bad governance include unemployment, insecurity and poverty.

While listing reduced corruption, good infrastructure, standard education facilities, engineers in governance and constant electric power supply as the significance of good governance, she regretted that in Nigeria, the problem of the power supply has for decades being a constant.

The NSE VP said an overview of the nation shows economic crisis as a result of the poor attention being given to the technological development and hinted that a nation cannot grow its economy without employing trained drivers to its technological wheels.

“I must point out that when the strategic development plan contains drivers that are not certified for that purpose, the resultant effect is national economic failure,

“I insist that the right people with the right character, integrity, dignity and the solution providers should come on board.

“I will therefore strongly suggest that economic, social and political problems be approached with an engineering problem-solving mentality.”

Meanwhile, efforts should be put in place to consider the economic and technological development sectors which are the two crucial areas of challenge in the national development.