Imo Building Collapse: NSE’ll Prosecute Erring Members, Says Mohammed
The President of Nigerian Society of Engineers, Babagana Mohammed, has said it will prosecute any of its member found culpable in the collapsed eight-storey building that occurred last week at Yar’Adua Drive in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
“We have engineering standards and ethical issues that engineers know about and they must abide by the rules. Of recent, we have an amended Coren Act which empowers us to deal with infractions. Any erring member caught will be made to face a tribunal and we are going to delist such person from our membership and they will face the law. When building collapses, lives are lost. You need to hold somebody responsible for something, and that is how it works everywhere in the world.
Speaking on how NSE would help the country to combat the Coronavirus pandemic, he said the society was planning to donate N10 million to government and will also made innovations available, adding that it has already set up study groups that would work on producing ventilators that can service five persons at once.
“Covid-19 is a war situation that we are all in, it’s not just for health workers. Ventilators are very expensive, it’s about $ 30,000. Chinese and Germany have stopped exporting their medical equipment, so we need to look inwards in Nigeria. We are also making facemasks, fumigators and hand sanitiser, we can afford to produce these for ourselves locally rather than importing them.”
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