As part of moves to sanitise the building and construction industries to minimise building collapse and shoddy construction jobs, the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, COREN, has stressed the urgency for a law to make owners of buildings that collapse as a result of using quacks or cheap materials and kill people to be visited with capital punishment.President of the institution, Kashim Ali, likened the situation to that of medical doctors who were charged with murder if, as a result of carelessness or quackery, they cause the death of their patients.He spoke yesterday at a news briefing to herald the 23rd Engineering Assembly scheduled for August 19 and 20 in Abuja as part of COREN’s efforts to update members’ knowledge, share ideas on emerging issues in engineering and to network.Its theme is “Commercialising Engineering: An Imperative for National Development.”Noting that he was underscoring the need for a major deterrent such as death penalty for building collapse in Nigeria because they were thoroughly embarrassed by the incidence, Ali said: “We have advocated that anybody who builds a house or structure that collapses and kills people should be killed.So, if that law is there, people who are not trained will not venture into it. If somebody who is a doctor commits quackery and kills somebody, they will charge him or her for murder, but not in the case of collapsed buildings; nobody is charged.“Often, because people who have these structures always have a way around the situation, nobody deals with them. That is why we are urging the National Assembly to go a step further.”He also lamented that although COREN had been using the police to deal with the incidence of building collapse in the past, it had not had the desired impact because “we found that the people who they charged to court were only the poor people. It’s that mason who calls himself an engineer that was being taken to court. The real person who got a million naira project would not go to court.”He explained that it was to find a more capable institution to handle the situation that his organisation decided to partner with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offence Commission, ICPC.According to Ali, their apparent fixation with quackery was because it was the greatest challenge to the engineering profession.Still in pursuance of an industry free of irregularities, COREN has ordered all registrable firms to register with it, saying it was now compulsory and any defaulter would be handed over to the ICPC.“COREN recently signed an MoU with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offence Commission, ICPC, to prosecute people who commit infraction of COREN Act and are not on the register.“Directly connected to the above is the recent order of Council that Registry must commence the licensing of engineering firms to practise in Nigeria.“By this, it is now compulsory for the following categories of engineering firms to procure COREN licence to practice: Engineering consulting firms; engineering construction firms; engineering manufacturing/production firms; engineering maintenance and service providers; engineering inspection, testing and laboratory service firms; and vendors of engineering machineries, equipment, plants and materials, etc”, Ali said.



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/coren-wants-death-sentence-for-owners-of-collapsed-buildings/186477/

Lagos state Landlords will be first to be prosecuted

North Korea treatment......

Descartes: Lagos state Landlords will be first to be prosecuted

Ahaaa...Lol.....

Crude and barbaric

Kill building owner and free quack engineers that did the construction

ok

Death sentence? They kind of deserve it sha.

I also want death sentence for rapists

+ boko haram
+ Ebola victims who ran away
+ pokithiefcians
+ ...

Ain't that harsh? What then for corrupt officials

What a dumb engr. Coren got itself a lunatic for president. Please quote me.

For real? Since when has capital punishment being the end to these sort of incidence? Nigeria and her ways. Smh.

coren should be doing better things than this , Africa is so backwards in the engineering sector , profer better solutions and monitoring techniques, rather than do the job of a lawyer.

This is the result of old school outdated humans up there in coren , they don't know their priorities, our agricultural sector is still suffering from non mechanized methods , our country is years behind in steel production even when we have the natural reserves of iron ore , software engineering has been left by engineers , all the researches we did in school were abandoned by our professors (who make up coren ) and not properly used ( I wonder why we even do final year projects in engineering).

You are here talking of capital punishment, how many owners use engineers to build ? when quack bricklayers are doing the job , what measures have you placed to minimize the use of quacks.
please go and check what other engineering governing bodies are doing in other countries and try to beat that.

coren is just a bunch of old professors and lecturers trying to have a nice portfolio of titles with their name , and a few other politicians who read engineering. No engineer In coren simple!

In the case of the colapse of a building investigation must be carried out to know the cause .whether its caused by a natural factor or by the use of poor materials.

And this death sentence will only be executed on the poor landlords while the rich get away with it
BTW, this should not be nigeria's topmost priority now

I think the builder should actually be the one to be given capital punishment.
The owner mostly provides the money and the builder may decide to cut corners or should be reasonable enough not to reduce cement quantity, iron and other materials out of greed bearing in mind that the structure would be weak.

Collapse Building


Wch kind death sentence ( mtchew ) for dis Naija


Abeg whr dem boiz to do jungle justice sharply jawe

Silly body with Silly President

shit happens

Just saying, what if they are also victims when their buildings collapses.




Nano-silver does not meet committee requirements

https://www.nairaland.com/1861115/nano-silver-did-not-meet-requirements

Booked

Wait

im an Engineer A COREN member by the way.Its sad hearing a learned man and leader of many talking this way.Is it the fault of the owner or as a result of using sub standard materials.How many so civil Engineers are qualified to be called structural Engineers.The fault is partially the house owner but fully the supervising Engineer.just all in the name of making money.A good Engineer is after a good name than money.
What of instances a house gets burnt due to power surge and every bodi says its from PHCN.No its from the substandard material.Every cable has its withstanding max voltage.
To me sorry to say,Coren is just a monetary body and not supervisory.

Omooba77: As part of moves to sanitise the building and construction industries to minimise building collapse and shoddy construction jobs, the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, COREN, has stressed the urgency for a law to make owners of buildings that collapse as a result of using quacks or cheap materials and kill people to be visited with capital punishment.President of the institution, Kashim Ali, likened the situation to that of medical doctors who were charged with murder if, as a result of carelessness or quackery, they cause the death of their patients.He spoke yesterday at a news briefing to herald the 23rd Engineering Assembly scheduled for August 19 and 20 in Abuja as part of COREN’s efforts to update members’ knowledge, share ideas on emerging issues in engineering and to network.Its theme is “Commercialising Engineering: An Imperative for National Development.”Noting that he was underscoring the need for a major deterrent such as death penalty for building collapse in Nigeria because they were thoroughly embarrassed by the incidence, Ali said: “We have advocated that anybody who builds a house or structure that collapses and kills people should be killed.So, if that law is there, people who are not trained will not venture into it. If somebody who is a doctor commits quackery and kills somebody, they will charge him or her for murder, but not in the case of collapsed buildings; nobody is charged.“Often, because people who have these structures always have a way around the situation, nobody deals with them. That is why we are urging the National Assembly to go a step further.”He also lamented that although COREN had been using the police to deal with the incidence of building collapse in the past, it had not had the desired impact because “we found that the people who they charged to court were only the poor people. It’s that mason who calls himself an engineer that was being taken to court. The real person who got a million naira project would not go to court.”He explained that it was to find a more capable institution to handle the situation that his organisation decided to partner with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offence Commission, ICPC.According to Ali, their apparent fixation with quackery was because it was the greatest challenge to the engineering profession.Still in pursuance of an industry free of irregularities, COREN has ordered all registrable firms to register with it, saying it was now compulsory and any defaulter would be handed over to the ICPC.“COREN recently signed an MoU with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offence Commission, ICPC, to prosecute people who commit infraction of COREN Act and are not on the register.“Directly connected to the above is the recent order of Council that Registry must commence the licensing of engineering firms to practise in Nigeria.“By this, it is now compulsory for the following categories of engineering firms to procure COREN licence to practice: Engineering consulting firms; engineering construction firms; engineering manufacturing/production firms; engineering maintenance and service providers; engineering inspection, testing and laboratory service firms; and vendors of engineering machineries, equipment, plants and materials, etc”, Ali said.



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/coren-wants-death-sentence-for-owners-of-collapsed-buildings/186477/

TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE PRESIDENTS NAME AND TELL ME WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND

Another halfbaked engineer with warped brain

regulating rubbish

There is a better way to handle this, not death sentence.

Letting ownership of the land is just fine.

ok

Seconded



if u dont av money to buy quality materials for ur house,dont build at all