‘Honesty, Integrity Crucial To Surveying Professionals’

Practising surveyors person been charged to imbibe the virtues of honesty, integrity and forthrightness.

The chairman, Ekiti State Branch of the Body of Fellows, Nigerian Institution of Surveyors, Rufus Ogunleye, who gave the charge, said honesty and integrity were important to the surveying profession.
Ogunleye, who spoke astatine the NIS House, Ado Ekiti, connected Thursday during a Valedictory Session organised by the assemblage to observe a precocious member, Adeyinka Adeleye, said the deceased exemplified the Virtues successful his lifetime.

He charged surveyors to instrumentality a cue and reap the gains of being virtuous, arsenic precocious Adeleye, who died astatine 93.
Paying glowing tributes to the deceased professional, Ogunleye said, “We should beryllium honest. Honesty is the champion policy, and it pays. If you are not sincere, you cannot spell into surveying. We person to debar cutting corners. And again, fto america promote our children to spell into the surveying profession. They volition not regret it.

“We stitchery contiguous to observe Chief Adeleye’s enduring legacy, admit his important contributions to the surveying assemblage and recognise his profound interaction connected our community.

“Chief Adeleye’s unwavering dedication, expertise, and passionateness person been a root of inspiration to countless professionals successful our field. His pioneering work, selfless mentorship and exemplary enactment person near an indelible people connected our assemblage and volition proceed to usher aboriginal generations,” the Chairman, BOF said.

In his tribute, the NIS Chairman, Ekiti State Branch Chairman Sunday Afolayan, described the precocious Adeleye arsenic “a staunch advocator for ethical practice, consistently abhorring dishonesty, laziness, and unprofessional conduct.”
Afolayan said that the precocious Adeleye “lived by the highest standards. One of his astir memorable and impactful words of contented was, “Don’t motion survey enactment you did not do, and it whitethorn beryllium your decease successful the profession.” This almighty connection encapsulates his unwavering committedness to integrity and responsibility.

In his keynote address, Rufus Akeredolu, a chap and erstwhile Chairman of Ikere Local Government, said that the precocious Adeleye “left an indelible people connected each of america and the precise scenery of our country. His bequest volition proceed to animate and motivate aboriginal generations to prosecute excellence, to mentor others, and to pb with integrity.”