Surveyors want regulatory council constituted

President of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS) Surveyor Akinloye Olufemi Oyegbola has called on the federal government to constitute the Surveyors Council of Nigeria.

Speaking during a courtesy visit to Media Trust office in Abuja yesterday, Oyegbola said absence of the council in the last 2 years has adversely affected training and registration of surveyors in the country.

He said, “In the last 2 years, we didn’t have a regulatory body and we want to believe that it was the transition from one government to the other at the national level that was responsible for it.

“The incumbent government has settled down in office and we are still very eagerly looking forward to the approval of the list that is before it. That has not really gone well for the training especially of the surveyors and most especially the professional registration of surveyors.”

The NIS president said that it was the regulatory body that conducts examinations for surveyors to be professionally registered, adding that its absence is affecting the promotion of surveyors working in the public service.

Oyegbola said that the institution’s annual Olumide memorial lecture with the theme “Justice, Law and the Society” coming up this month will be used to educate people on practice of survey in order to encourage the young people to take to the profession.