The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Bwari branch in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), says plans are underway to assist Bwari Area Council on infrastructure development.
Chairman of the branch, Mr Dauda Musa, made this know in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday.
Musa said that the move was part of the fulfillment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the role of engineers toward sustainable community development.
According to him, the society intends to collaborate with the council’s administration in offering technical assistance that would aid community development.
He said that a committee set up to identify areas of collaboration has submitted a reports, which would help to set things in motion.
Musa said: “It is our wish to collaborate with the area council, where we can give our views on issues pertaining to engineering that can help develop the area.
“As such, we formed a committee that has gone round the council to identify where the society can assist and they have submitted their reports where they identified infrastructure as one of the major challenges.
” One of them, which is most important is the issue of flooding along access roads. We must partner with the council to address this particular challenge before we are overwhelmed with the rains.
” We hope to achieve success on this project because, even though it is capital intensive, we must ensure safety during the rainy season.”
Musa said that part of the branch’s fundamental objectives was to create awareness about engineering as well as ensure registration of new members into the society.
He, however, said that the society had taken its advocacy to both primary and secondary schools within the district.
According to him, the society needs to sensitise pupils and students during career day events on taking up science studies with the hope to becoming engineers.
Musa further said that the branch had in the process also provided some of the schools with science textbooks in order to boost the performance of the students.
This strategy, he said, would also encourage, especially the girl-child, to develop interest in becoming an engineer in the future.
He also congratulated engineers all over the world on the successful declaration of the World Engineers Day, which was set aside on March 14, annually, to celebrate the profession beginning from 2020.
The day, he added, would add value to the profession while also creating avenues to suggest innovations for engineering development globally.
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