The Surveyor General of the Federation (SGOF) Abduganiyu Adeyemi Adebomehin has once again advised and reiterated the need for security agents and practitioners to always acknowledge his office when they are planning security strategy in the country , noting that mapping is an integral part of security architecture and the country cannot be an exception if we must effectively combat current insecurity in the country , he made the remarks while hosting the former General Manager of Shell Group and the current Group Managing Director of the Nembe Exploration and Production Company Limited Ike Okoronkwo with his management team in his office today.
SGOF in his remarks said “I don’t know how they will be talking about security and they don’t know they are going to use maps. If they can subscribe, we’ll be able to give them maps , we have been able to digitalize everything.”
“We call for paper presentation on mapping at a time only few of them were able to turn up while others were giving different excuses but those who attended the presentation gave the feed as , oh, we can now see why we need this.”
He added “what we have done is to digitize each of the states, and we have a database that we are attached to it, except where we are not fully convinced that we have enough data.”
Ike, University of Lagos ex-student with a degree in Surveying, who spoke earlier said “Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation is a very important one when it concerns special data mapping , management and marketing. What most people don’t realize is that in some countries , surveying was in defence . Yes, when we started the GPS there was a deliberate effort to design it for the military, so they didn’t want civilians to use GPS and satellite imaging to locate a place and then commit crime.”
He said “we have implemented digital mapping and then I proposed to match that with spots images and all that then matching them together. That is how everything became the precursor to working today known as Google Map. “
The GMD said while stating his mission to OSGOF “ We are re-uniting and connecting with OSGOF and it is a great experience for us at Nembe Exploration and Production Company, and It’s my pleasure coming to this office to present to you the conference bag, our company identity and others . We pray that the country will go from strength to strength because when I look at survey, when I came into survey, I never knew that surveying is worth talking about”
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Henry David
Head, Information and Publication Relations
OSGOF
3RD July, 2025
