Ex-Legislator Faults Nigeria’s Engineering Practice

Former member representing Ideato North and South at the House of Representatives,  Ezeani Nnamdi Thank God, has faulted the level of engineering practice in Nigeria, stressing that the Nigerian Engineers should focus more on designs  that would be required by both foreign and local entrepreneurs for any engineering production.

The scholar and entrepreneur from Ideato bloc of the State gave the charge to the engineers while receiving an award from the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Owerri Branch, at this year’s Investiture/Inauguration of a new chairman, Engr. Emeka Ugoanyanwu and other Executive members at Concorde Hotel, Owerri.

He advised the engineers to start showcasing their engineering dexterity in every facet of practice to make themselves marketable in the competitive engineering world.

Ezeani equally advised the Nigerian engineers to set up the institute of practical engineering so that practical approaches in the field would be encouraged and actualised.

Meanwhile, the newly elected Chairman of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Owerri Branch, Engr. Emeka Ugoanyanwu, has assured his colleagues of his readiness to take the society to the next level in fulfillment of his campaign promise, noting that the entrepreneurial development and Heartland engineering radio programmes, among others, would soon commence to create the necessary linkage between innovation, research and industries.

The branch chairman noted  that results of  innovations and researches by many higher institutions  in Imo State will be hooked up to industries that would adequately make use of them to the benefit of all, instead of leaving those projects to waste in their respective engineering faculties and Halls.

He stressed that with such ready market for the industries, more investment will be encouraged.

He assured all the members that he would be responsive to their needs and aspirations to  enable them easily unlock their potentials, adding that the upcoming and young engineers would not be left out in their area of professional career development.

The Chairman of the Investiture and Award Committee, Engr. Bob Nwazota, during his interaction with newsmen, commended the democratic format that led to the emergence of  Engr. Emeka Ugoanyanwu, stating that he would lead aright.

The occasion witnessed a lecture titled: “Engineer, The Need of Nigeria Now”, and delivered by a renowned scholar, Prof. G.I. Nwandikom of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri.