By Bashir Mohammed
Kano
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has charged surveyors not to compromise quality assurance in handling their jobs, to save lives and property, as well as to promote development.
He said the worrisome cases of collapsed buildings in the country pointed largely to the failure of construction expects like surveyors to do their occupations in line with the established code of conduct.
The governor, who was speaking while receiving a delegation from the Northern Surveyors Forum, urged them to be guided by ethics, noting that ethical compliance was key to maintaining public confidence in the surveying profession.
He described surveying “as a very important profession because the planning and construction of houses and all civil engineering projects as based on survey measurements.”
“Government will continue to utilise your members as consultants in the construction of infrastructure in Kano,” he said, pointing out that his administration “is currently constructing capital intensive projects across various spheres of human endeavour.”
In his speech, the chairman, Northern Surveyors Forum, Alhaji Badamasi Tahir, appealed to the state government to lift the embargo on employment of surveyors into the state Civil Service.
He said Kano, being one of the states with the largest land mass in the North, needed the services of surveyors not only in the provision of infrastructure, but also other professional land management related jobs.
Badamasi praised the Ganduje administration for converting the Ministry of Land to a bureau, directly under the office of the governor, saying the permission granted for the state polytechnic to offer diploma programme in surveying is also a welcome development.