The Head of Service in Oyo State, Mrs. Ololade Agboola, has tasked the State’s surveyors to uphold professional ethics and using their expertise to advance the civil service.
Mrs Agboola made this statement at the 2022 Annual Symposium, “Application of GIS in Agriculture,” which was hosted at NIS Plaza, Ikolaba, Ibadan.
The symposium, according to her, was to honor former leaders who had made significant contributions to the association’s growth and development as well as to protect the ethics of the profession.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism, Mr. Oyesola Oyedele, who represented the Head of Service, stated that Nigeria needed to diversify its economy and that one of its main pillars is agriculture, particularly in the South-West.
Mrs Agboola asked the surveyors to uphold the standards of professionalism and ethics and to look for opportunities to apply their expertise to advance the State’s civil service.
She urged other service-related professions to follow the lead of the Nigeria Institution of Surveyors in the State by hosting a similar symposium for their members in order to improve their members’ productivity and effectiveness.
In his remarks, the Surveyor General of Oyo State also the Chairman, Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON), Oyo State Ethics Committee, Surveyor Alaba Abiodun said the symposium was organised to enlightened the public on the relevance of surveying especially in the Agriculture.
The Surveyor General hinted that Agriculture is one of the four point agenda of the present administration in the State led by Engineer Seyi Makinde “we want to make our impart as Surveyors to contribute our own quota to revolutionalise Agriculture so that there would be abundant food supply in the State”.
The Guest lecturer Professor Olajide Kufoniyi admonished government at all levels to embraced Geographical Information Service (GIS) to promote Agriculture in Nigeria.
Present at the event were the representative of the Secretary to the State Government, Permanent Secretary, General Administration, Governor’s Office, Mr. Ayorinde, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Bayo Raji, Former Rector, Federal School of Surveying, Oyo, Professor Bada Babatunde Saheed and Dr. Samuel Ayodele from International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan, among others.
