He led the call at a public forum tagged:”Engineering as the key facilitator of national development policies and strategies for the incoming administration”, organised by the Nigerian Academy of Engineering (NAEng) in Lagos. “ln a country where there are no factories producing and adding value, you will necessarily have unemployment because, where will you generate wealth from?. He advised political leaders to behave properly and stop degrading the engineering profession rather than creating an enabling environment for practitioners to thrive. He said to achieve this will necessitate the establishment of engineering infrastructure to create a technological base. He said Nigeria has enough manpower to design and implement mitigation measures for floods and gully erosion.

Source: The Guardian December 19, 2022 03:02 UTC