NIGERIAN Institute of Architects (NIA) has lamented the nation’s dreary security, and called attention to the attack on a company vehicle carrying personnel of West Africa Ceramics, Ajaokuta, where six people died, with employees kidnapped.
In a statement signed by NIA President Enyi E. Ben-Eboh and Honorary General Secretary Chike Chamberlain Ibeanu, it said the institute needed to alert to the danger posed by terrorists, especially with the kidnap of one of their members working with Yobe State, on January 25. They regretted that till now the government had done nothing to rescue him.
On April 24, an electrical engineer was kidnapped in Kaduna with another killed in Kaduna in August 2021 despite ransom paid by the family.
“This year alone, project sites under government and private housing schemes and related infrastructure projects have either had to be relocated, closed or completely shelved on account of activities of non-state actors in parts of the country…”
Ben-Eboh called on the Federal Government to redesign the security architecture to minimise the scourge of insecurity. He said as a signatory to Agenda 2030 SDG Goals of United Nations, the attainment of critical sections of the declaration is under serious threats if not met.
He condoled with families and communities affected by increasing insecurity.
rians are not met; schools and hospitals for citizens are not built while the provision of much needed roads and other transportation infrastructure are hampered or out rightly stopped. Lamenting that professionals in the building industry are finding it increasing difficult to freely go about their activities in a safe and conducive environment he also noted that government’s effort at diversifying the economy and ensuring critical building materials self-sufficiency is also under serious threat.