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Engineers should meet needs of society – Nyusi

5:34 CAT | 29 Sep 2016

In File Club of Mozambique / Filipe Nyusi

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday challenged the country’s engineers to use their technical and empirical knowledge to meet the needs of Mozambican society.

Speaking in Maputo, at the opening of the Sixth Mozambican Engineering Fair, Nyusi stressed that engineers should not be concerned simply with solving problems, but also with displaying management capacity, communication, leadership, team work, and even becoming President (Nyusi himself is an engineer by profession).

Engineers, he continued, are called upon to contribute with solutions for the development of human capital, that will also create more jobs, increase productivity and raise competitiveness.

At the fair, Nyusi said, engineers “are bringing and making specific items. The fair spurs on the taste for scientific research. Society is depositing great hopes in you, because engineers must always be concerned in seeking out solutions for the problems which plague the country”.

He pointed to the role which engineers can play in import substitution through the use of endogenous technologies. Their work should also present solutions that are friendly to the environment, and contribute towards sustainable environmental management.

Nyusi stressed that the contributions by students to solving Mozambique’s problems did not begin today, but with the “8th March movement” of 1976, when the country’s first President, Samora Machel, had called on students to leave their studies temporarily and take up positions abandoned by the fleeing Portuguese settlers, so that they could keep the economy functioning.

He noted that in his visits to the provinces he had interacted with academics and specialists from various engineering fields. “These are young people who do not demand immediate comfort”, he said. “They are young people who have plunged into the process of developing Mozambique”.

The fair, Nyusi continued, was a space for interaction between universities, companies, industries and society at large, through the sharing of the knowledge produced and of the resources of the productive sector to meet the demands of society”.

He knew that students participating in the fair had carried out a survey to identify the needs of communities in some districts and localities. “This is the right path, and the correct way to exercise social inclusion”, said the President.

The key areas for ensuring the speedy development of social justice, he continued, are food security, access to clear drinking water, the construction of adequate social and economic infrastructures, and the building of an industrialised and diversified economy.

Nyusi challenged the body that represents engineers, the Mozambican Order of Engineers, “to form partnerships with the government so that the country can benefit fully from your talent and knowledge”.

Source: AIM