The Acting Surveyor-General of the federation, Taiwo Adeniran, has identified the absence of base map across the states as a challenge to equitable distribution of infrastructural development and good governance in the country.
The Surveyor-General stated this when speaking to Journalists during the 2019 conference on survey coordination and advisory board on survey training in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.
He also expressed worries that a lot of people in the country do not understand what surveyors do, hence they have a lot of reluctance for appropriating money for surveying and mapping.
According to him, “the challenges we are having is that states don’t have Base Map which the conference is trying to solve so that our leadership and hierarchy will be able to appreciate what is surveying and mapping.”
He, therefore, lamented that what is obtainable in the country is “I am a friend of the governor to come and put a borehole in our area. And almost all of the governor’s friends are coming to him.
“But at the end of the day, all the boreholes the governor is going to provide are going to be in one corner.”
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He continued that by the time one looks at these things on the map, one may see that there may be so many boreholes but they were not so well equitably distributed within the state, adding that the map would give where the facilities are distributed.
“If you look at the activities of your environment on a map, it will quickly show you that this area has been neglected and this area is having a cloud of these developments.
“It is even said that the best-mapped countries are the best-developed countries across the world,” Adeniran explained.
Anthony Adgidzi, Lafia
