Recession: Fashola seeks support from professionals

MINISTER of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that registered quantity surveyors were needed to use their expertise to assist government in moving the country out of the recession through efficient resource management, proper project costing and value for money.

“The role of registered quantity surveyors in applying their skills and expertise to assist government achieve its visions in this area is very important,” he said in Abuja at an induction event organized for newly-registered surveyors and firms.

The minister who was represented by the director in charge of quantity survey in the ministry, Dickson Onoja, expressed satisfaction with what he described as achievements of the current governing board of Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria (QSRBN), noting that it had supplied competent professionals needed for quality management of construction industry.

Fashola urged quantity surveyors to position themselves and collaborate with other construction professionals to take advantage of the numerous construction projects coming up in 2017.

According to him, the Federal Government was determined to exit the current economic recession through heavy spending and investment in capital projects and infrastructures.

He said that dearth of infrastructure posed a serious challenge to sustainable economic development of the country and described construction sector as one of the sectors which can be used to generate employment on a massive scale.