SURCON Boss Sues For Digitisation Of Surveying

The Registrar, Surveyors
Council of Nigeria (SURCON), Surveyor Wiston Ayeni, has called on the Federal Government to digitise the surveying department of its ministry.
He made the appeal in an interview with newsmen last Friday in Port Harcourt.
Ayeni said the call became necessary after considering the high spread of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) advancement in the country.
He reasoned that any profession that was still operating manually would not meet up with the current challenges in the system.
The SURCON boss reasoned that without digitised system the needed result would not be achieved on time.
According to him, manual production has become obsolete and could not withstand the modern and digitised system used globally.
He explained that with such system that he could produce the accurate map of Rivers State within few days, but may find it difficult to do same with analogue tools.
He also called on the state government to introduce ICT in their surveying departments in a bid to achieving better results.
The seasoned surveyor challenged the upcoming generation to work harder so as to match their counterparts across the globe.
It would be recalled that the Rivers State government in October 2012, promised to digitise its lands and survey ministry.