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Engineering Key to Vision 20:2020 —Aregbesola

[caption id="attachment_8782" align="aligncenter" width="382"] Governor Rauf Aregbesola[/caption]

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun statehas submitted that engineering is the key to the attainment of the Vision 20:2020 of the federal government.
 Aregbesola was emphatic in his submission that the critical relevance of engineering to the development of any nation cannot be ignored.
Aregbesola who made the submission shortly after being conferred with the Nigerian Society of Engineers' (NSE) Special Presidential Merit Award in Osogbo, decried the deliberate neglect of engineers in the scheme of charting a pathway to development in Nigeria. He stated that engineers can be fully utilised to achieve the much needed advancement in the country through the provision of "critical infrastructure" from food security to electricity, water and housing.
Aregbesola challenged the federal government to declare a decade of emergency in all the critical sectors of the economy, so that there will be jobs for all employable Nigerians, including all categories of engineers.
He said, "Vision 20:2020 begins and ends with engineering. There is no politics here. We are not interested in which party is there. We are simply saying that no nation can achieve its full developmental potentials, if the people already trained in applying their knowledge to solving problems of human needs in such society are idle, unengaged and unproductive.... Not because they are lazy, but simply because there is nothing for them to do.
"You can only talk about meaningful development when engineers particularly are motivated to put back to the society what they have learnt in school. It is the duty of government to create such opportunities", he said.
Aregbesola commended Engineer Mustafa Balabe Shehu, the NSE president, for his tenacity and calm disposition in bringing about the huge achievements that the Society has recorded during his tenure as President. He made specific reference to the courage of the president and his EXCO team in accepting the challenge of hosting the World Engineering Conference in Abuja in 2014, a task he described as daunting.
Shehu on his part had earlier identified some unique projects of the governor as the determining indices for conferring the award on him.

Simeon Ogoegbulem/ BUSINESS WORLD