COREN advocates joint task team with ICPC to check building collapse
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), has urged the setting up of a joint task team with ICPC to check cases of building collapse in the country.
Mr Ali Rabiu, President of COREN made the call in a statement issued by Mrs Ojonugwa Haruna, Head, Public Relations Department, COREN in Abuja on Tuesday.
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Rabiu spoke when he visited the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Olufunmileyi.
According to him, COREN is the ethical court for engineers with the vision to promote and ensure the highest standards of professionalism in engineering practice in the country.
He said the council had been empowered by law, adding that the implementation of the powers of COREN, directly and indirectly meant increased cases of investigations and prosecutions of offenders.
“ICPC also seeks to free Nigeria of all forms of corruption and practices.
“The coming together of these two important organs of government (ICPC and COREN) as partners to achieve the major objectives of their creation is an initiative that must be commended.
“On May 16, 2019, ICPC and COREN signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to go into partnership for the purpose of investigation of offenders of corrupt practices, among others.
“It is, therefore, my suggestion that ICPC and COREN create a task team to review the 2014 MoU for possible update and enhancement.’’
The COREN chief said this would positively contribute to the industrial and socio-economic growth of the nation as it would eradicate all abnormalities including corruption in engineering practice.
NAN reports that the council was established as a Statutory Organ of the Federal Government by Decree No. 55 in 1970, which was amended in 1992.
The Act was further amended and assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari in March 2019.
COREN is now empowered to determine who engineering practitioners are, what standards of knowledge and skills are to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as engineers.
It is also empowered to regulate and control engineering practice in Nigeria in all aspects and prosecute any person or firm that contravenes the provision of the Act in a court of competent jurisdiction.
(NAN)
