Amaewhule Wants Building Technology In Tertiary Institutions

The Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly (RVHA), Hon. Martin Amaewhule has called for the introduction of building technology into the curriculum of tertiary institutions in the State.
Amaewhule who made the call recently when the Nigerian Institute of Building, Rivers State  Chapter, paid him a courtesy visit at his office in Port Harcourt, said the introduction of the course would help to check unemployment and youth restiveness in the State.
He said apart from the Port Harcourt Polytechnic that offers the course at Ordinary National Diploma level, no institution in the State does so at the advanced level.
He called on the Port Harcourt Polytechnic to also upgrade the course to a Higher National Diploma.
“If our youth are trained in building technology, they can fit into the system and be self employed.
“Government alone cannot generate employment for everybody, some persons can be trained on their own and get jobs, and I think it is the right thing for the institutions to get this course in place, especially now that the State is in the midst of economic recession in the country,” Amaewhule said.
The lawmaker promised that the Assembly would ensure that the physical planning and development law of 2003 is amended.
Earlier, the chairman of the group, Moses Ugheoke said the absence of the course in the higher institutions’ curriculum is adversely affecting Rivers indigenes who would have chosen the course as a career discipline.
He said, it was wrong for the State to have institutions without such course in the curriculum.
Ugheoke said the group’s visit to the Assembly was aimed at establishing a cordial relationship with the Assembly to see how the course can be absorbed into the school’s curriculum in the State.
He pleaded that the Ministry of Urban Development and Physical Planning be adequately staffed with builders.