(COREN Registrar, Engr. Prof. Justine Uche with BACSAAN National President, Haj Fasasi Mohammed Jamiu at the venue of the ongoing meeting of the National Council on Lands, Housing and Urban Development in Ilorin)
(Prof. Uche, Haj Fasasi with other BACSAAN leaders and official of COREN in Kwara, Hajia Ralia Aliyu)
By Biola Lawal
Ilorin (FLOWERBUDNEWS): The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (CORE
N) and the Builders, Construction and Skilled Artisans Association of Nigeria (BACSAAN) have commenced discussion to strengthen collaboration to tackle the menace of Building collapse in Nigeria.
FLOWERBUDNEWS reports that COREN Registrar, Engr. Pro kmf. Okorie Austine Uche and a BACSAAN team, led by its National President, Haj. Fasasi Mohammed Jamiu met on the sideline of the ongoing 14th Meeting of the National Council on Lands Housing and Urban Development holding in Ilorin.
Speaking at the meeting, the COREN Registrar expressed the readiness of his Council to enhance the existing relationship with BACSAAN to particularly address the problem of collapsing buildings in the country.
Prof Uche said that COREN was committed to ensuring that operators in the different sectors of the engineering adhere to set regulations and rules to enhance and sustain standard.
The COREN Resgistrar said that the Council appreciated the need to broaden cooperation with relevant bodies and also value the assistance of whistleblowers who will be alerting COREN on any suspected wholesome practices in the build environment.
”You are already COREN,” Prof. Uche told Fasasi, the BACSAAN National President who displayed his certification as Skilled Artisan by COREN..
He said that as a regulatory body, COREN was interested in assisting artisans in everyway possible to ensure that their capacity and economic condition improve.
BACSAAN is the umbrella body of all Artisans in Nigeria, including masons, Tilers, POP Makers, Block moulders, Electricians, Bricklayers, Motor Mechanics, Rewires, Shoe Makers, Tailors, Hairdressers among others.
Also speaking during the meeting, BACSAAN National Leader, Haj Fasasi Mohammed Jamiu disclosed that COREN and BACSAAN had being interracting for several years, adding that time had come to move the relationship higher.
Fasasi said that BACSAAN was particularly concerned with the persistent problem of building collapses which, he said, had claimed the lives of many member and deserved full attention and action of all stakeholders in the build environment. (FLOWERBUDNEWS)
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Lawal, on his part, is also a former Honourable Commissioner for Information,Youth, Sports and Culture of Osun state, his home state.
Biola Lawal had also successfully served two tenures as Press Secretary to the ECOMOG Force Commander in Liberia during the Liberian and Sierra Leone Civil wars. He was an outstanding NAN Defence and War Correspondent for many years.
The retired NAN Acting Boss holds the honour of being the only journalist that served two terms on the ECOMOG international assignment due to his high professionalism and decency.
He is a Co-Author of the book; ECOMOG, A BOLD ATTEMPT AT REGIONAL PEACEKEEPING! Edited Mrs Magaret Voght. The book remains the most. factual, detailed and authentic book on the ECOWAS sponsored ECOMOG Military operation.
