SGOF WARNS AGAINST CONTESTING FG'S BLUEPRINT TO MAP NIGERIA ..... Says Process Is On Track

“His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was very interested after he was briefed that the last time Nigeria was mapped was in the 70s. I don’t know why some people are threatening to go to  court over this decision.” Surv. Adebomehin.

 

The Federal Government's blueprint to map Nigeria is on course and those threatening court actions against the movement of the Office of Surveyor General of the Federation (OSGOF) to the Presidency, with the powers given to the Office, will only amount to fighting a Presidential Order.

This was the assertion of the Surveyor General of the Federation (SGOF), Surv. Abduganiyu Adeyemi Adebomehin when he received in audience, a delegation from the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Abuja branch in his Office.

According to Surv. Adebomehin, “His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was very interested after he was briefed that the last time Nigeria was mapped was in the 70s. I don’t know why some people are threatening to go to  court over this decision.”

“This is the first time we would be having real surveying in Nigeria under the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr President; no one can challenge a Presidential Order.

Speaking on his recent tour of the coastal bridge with the Minister of Works, Engr David Umahi, the SGOF disclosed that "the Federal Government is trying to build a tunnel from Victoria Island to Badagry in Lagos State, and that will be the first tunnel in the whole of Africa.” 

The Surveyor General, while addressing the delegation from NIS, said; “My gain is to give the surveying profession ample opportunity to develop. It is much better for the OSGOF to be under the Presidency in order to harness its potentials. The Office has been working with a low budget and slow in decision making because of the bureaucracy.” 

Earlier in his votes of thanks, Surv. Robert Coker, the Head of Hydrography in OSGOF said; “Anyone that is not happy with the movement of the OSGOF to the Presidency amounts to fighting a Presidential Order and they have to contend with the highest authority in the land“. 

He enjoined the NIS and others within the surveying profession to ensure that the image of the profession is well protected by properly guiding the upcoming young surveyors.“

Surv Alfred Adeojo, the Secretary of the NIS FCT Chapter noted that, "with the movement of the OSGOF to the Presidency, it means good things are ahead of us and it took the SGOF a lot of courage and boldness to achieve this and we the young ones coming behind him shall emulate this."