No Room For Substandard Projects In Ekiti – Fayemi

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, says his administration has zero tolerance for execution of substandard projects.
Fayemi made the declaration while inaugurating the Ekiti State Technical Committee (ESTC) and Ekiti State Expatriate Monitoring Committee (ESEMC) of the Engineering Regulations, yesterday in Ado-Ekiti.
The governor, represented by his deputy, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, said the inauguration of the two committees would help to reduce quackery in engineering practices in the state to the barest minimum.
He said that Ekiti was the 11th state in the federation where the two committees were being inaugurated.
The committees are to be guided by a seven-point terms of reference in carrying out their responsibilities, in upholding the ethics and integrity of the engineering practice in the state,
The governor commended the council and management of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) for ensuring that engineering was practised in Nigeria in accordance with relevant codes of the practice.
Fayemi said that no nation could develop without engineering, describing the profession as “the bedrock for infrastructural development, which plays crucial roles in the development of our great country”.
 ”The inauguration of the Ekiti State Technical Committee of the Engineering Regulations Monitoring of COREN is the birth of a new dawn in what I consider as COREN’s effort to revolutionise the practice of engineering in Nigeria and domesticate the best practices in Ekiti State.
“With this inauguration, the era of mediocrity should be gone. Engineering must take its pride of place and be the driver in our development effort in our state.