The Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG), has said the Federal Government is committed to ending quackery in the mining industry while ensuring the industry contributes to economic development.
Chairman of the Council, Dr. Godspower Okpoi, stated this at the10th induction and public presentation of instruments of practice to 150 registered professional members and three corporate members in Abuja.
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He said, “Efforts will continue towards enhancing the registration of more professionals and companies to ensure that quackery in the extractive sector is reduced to the barest minimum and eventually eliminated in the country.”
Okpoi noted that with the support of the present administration in the extractive sector, it was no longer business as usual if the country was to reap the benefits derivable from the sector.
He said the Council has about 2,751 members and 166 corporate organisations on the register. “Today we are recording an additional 150 professional members and three corporate members.”
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc. Olamilekan Adegbite, at the event, said: “The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development under my leadership will continue to support the council with policy and guidance and indeed all ways possible to ensure that COMEG functions properly and discharges its responsibility of regulating, controlling and enforcing the provisions of the laws and regulations guiding mineral exploration and exploitation”
To the inductees he said with their registration, they would be required to live up to the expectation of COMEG professional code of conduct and ethics to sustain the standard of practice in the Nigerian extractive industry.
