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Don decries influx of foreigners into nation’s construction industry

…calls for enactment of Local Content Act

A Professor of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering and former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Samuel Uchechukwu Ejezie has advocated the enactment of local content laws for the construction industry in the country.

This, he said would help curtail the influx of all shades of foreign practitioners into the nation’s construction industry and thus create more opportunities for the indigenous contractors

Professor Ejezie, who is currently serving as Professorial Assessor for Universities in Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria, stated this in a lecture entitled: ‘State of Infrastructure in Nigeria: An Embarrassment for local Content Advocacy in the construction industry’ which he delivered at the 5th Edition of Engr. Emmanuel Iwuanyawu Annual lecture series in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

Despite the absence of such an Act for the construction sector, Ejezie noted that the protagonists seem to have apparently succeeded even without government pronouncement.

He lamented that construction practice in the nation’s construction industry by Nigerians is so competitive that it has become an “all comers” affair irrespective of educational and training background, professional affiliation or vocational calling.

The don noted that the proficiency and areas of specialization of construction contractors handling most of the small or medium sized construction projects all over the country are not readily discernible.

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