From Obinna Odogwu, Awka
Surveyors have raised the alarm over the kidnapping, killing, and robbing of their colleagues in the course of carrying out their jobs.
They lamented that they were often waylaid and attacked by criminals in the bush and forest where they usually operate owing to the nature of their jobs.
National Chairman of Young Surveyors Network, Otobong Nse, made the lamentation at the 6th Harvest of Ideas annual conference and training of the association themed: Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion: Preparing the Next Generation of Surveyors, held in Awka, Anambra State.
Nse lamented: “We have surveyors being kidnapped; we have them being threatened in the course of carrying out their jobs. Some of them have fallen victim in cases where we have communal crises and the rest of them.
“Just a few months ago, a very well-respected and highly loved surveyor was kidnapped along Abuja-Lokoja Highway and killed by his abductors.
“And so we are calling on the government to rise up to the occasion, partner with the surveyors, and see how some of these wicked vices can be stemmed before they get out of hand.
“In the last one year, we have had more than one assassination. The recent one happened about two or three months ago. We have had a surveyor assassinated in Rivers State; we have had a surveyor kidnapped in Ekiti State.”