President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday directed the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria to strengthen engineering regulation, tighten enforcement and impose proportionate sanctions on erring practitioners to curb infrastructure failures and safeguard public safety.
The President said Nigeria could no longer afford preventable engineering failures that result in deaths, destruction of property, wasted public funds and declining confidence in infrastructure, stressing that regulation must shift from a reactive system to one driven by prevention, compliance and accountability.
Tinubu, represented by the Minister of Works, David Umahi, stated this while declaring open the 34th Engineering Assembly of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria in Abuja.
The assembly, themed “Advancing Public Safety in Nigeria through Strategic Engineering Regulation, Enforcement and a Tiered Sanction Regime,” brought together government officials, regulators, engineers, academics and industry leaders to examine strategies for strengthening engineering governance and improving infrastructure quality across the country.
Declaring the event open, the President described engineering as the foundation of national development, saying the profession extends beyond constructing roads, bridges and buildings to protecting human lives.
