Enugu State Government has restated its commitment to work with any
professional body that would assist in the rapid development of the
state.
The Governor of the State, Rt. Honourable Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, when
members of Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and Valuers paid him
a courtesy visit said the state would want a hand of co-operation from
the institute.
The governor described the Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and
Valuers as a group which falls into the category of professional
bodies that seek to interact with frequently, due to vital role that
its members play in such matters as maintenance of public
infrastructure/assets, custodianship of land and landed properties,
land economy, resolution of land disputes, formation of land and
property laws and importantly too, in employment generation.
The governor who was represented by his deputy Hon. Cecilia Ezeilo
restated government’s commitment to maintaining the existing
partnership with their members, especially in such areas as valuation,
letting, management or disposal of government assets in the
administration of tenement/property rate and in deed any venture that
would help improve and boost the practice of the profession in Enugu
State.
The state chief executive urged the group to intensify efforts to
check the activities of quacks and other tricksters in the profession
ensuring that their members abide by the ethics of the profession at
all times to ensure that the people in the lower class are not unduly
denied access to land and property owing to exorbitant and excessive
costs, demanding on plots of land.
Earlier while addressing the governor and some members of the state
executive council, the Chairman of Nigeria Institute of Estate
Surveyors and Valuers, Estate Surveyor and Valuer Cosmas Eze noted
that the essence of their visit is to congratulate the governor on the
successful wining on the just concluded general elections.
They pledged that the association would continue to demonstrate their
unalloyed support and full support to his administration.
Mr. Eze maintained that the Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors and
Valuers was a board set up by the federal government to regulate the
practice of Estate Surveyors and Valuers in Nigeria. This was made
possible with degree CAP E. 13 of 1975 set up to regulate and control
of the practice of Estate Surveyors and Valuers in the zonal level and
as well the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria.
The Chairman explained that the association has concluded an
arrangement about having an office in Enugu to control and regulate
the practice of Estate Surveyors and Valuers in Enugu zonal offices of
the country but felt that Enugu State would be first to have their
zonal headquarters, being that Enugu is the regional headquarters of
the South East zone.
He appealed to the governor to allocate a portion of land to the
association to enable the building project be taken off before the
year runs off.
