Criminalise thriving sale of architects, engineers licences

We have, and rightfully so, for some time been bashing the construction statutory agencies for quite literally every mishaps that have befallen this sector. But without doubt, professionals in the construction industry have been as culpable as the statutory institutions for exacerbation of this sector’s impunity. There are sundry reasons to qualify this conjecture however, the obvious one has to be the continuous dubious practice of some licensed construction professionals selling their certificates and stamps at a fee in sunlight.

During my construction management training at the university, we heard tales of how students got busy with side hustle projects upon reaching third year. We longed for that year and sure we indeed lived to witness and testify to this. It was, and I still believe is, a norm for clients seeking cheap services to acquire them from students at university. To evade the statutory requirement of having registered consultant practising licence for approval purposes, these licences were bought at a fee from some unscrupulous licensed professionals.