A land surveyor in
Port Harcourt, C.A. Ukpai has urged property developers, and land speculators as well as buyers to always bring the landlord into the issue of surveying beam and four corner block setting, so as to avoid the problem of encroachment on the buyers side.
He has also urged surveyors to always sign a job that they have properly cross checked in order to avoid mistakes from agents and quacks.
Ukpai who was speaking in a chat with The Tide in Port Harcourt  noted that most of the jobs done in the built environment were done based on political consideration, but not on professional consideration, with the aim of making quick money before leaving office.
He noted that in Rivers State, quack jobs are not accepted in the office of the Surveyor-General, pointing out that the Surveyor-General of the State ensure that everything is done professionally.
The Land surveyor also discouraged people from paying less fee on a job, outside the approved government value, pointing out that such jobs will not be taken to the ministry concerned for approval and documentation, but will end up with the professional that handled the job.
On high-rise buildings the building expert stated that based on the Geo-tech investigation report matter of which the Rivers State government has ordered that no one should build a high-rise structure without the Geotech investigation report.
He said that inspite of the order, people are still circumventing the regulation, so that they will not pay the token that is required.
Ukpai, however warned on the danger of such practice, stressing that people will still blame government when the problems arise just because people want money and are inclind to do wrong things.

Corlins Walter