The Acting Surveyor General of the Federation (SGoF), Surv. Abduganiyu Adeyemi Adebomehin, has said that the current Nigerian map was produced for the country by the Canadian Government in 1970.
Adebomehin, who spoke while defending the 2022 budget appropriation at the National Assembly,maintained that Nigeria must be remapped for her to be able to successfully deal with various challenges negatively counting against the genuine commitment and efforts of the Federal Government towards achieving a more effective security network, supportive environmental order, physical infrastructure and socioeconomic system to guarantee sustainable development.
According to him, the country would continue to find it difficult to make effectual decisions, plan well and successful implement or execute her people-oriented and developmental projects without current topographical sheets that could provide the leadership timely and reliable data to work on.
He added that poor funding of the office, has hindered the production of current topo-sheets, provide a good number of Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) across the country, and maximize the high performance data centre of the office among others.
He said that OSGoF would require a drone that could fly for certain period of time to generate data for a complete topo-sheet.
He assured that if properly funded, OSGoF could provide the necessary support to enhance the country’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), combat her security challenges, and supports the Nigerian satellite system, weather forecast among many more.
