The chairperson of the Kenyan Women Engineers Committee, Nairobi, Engr. Jennifer Gache has advocated for engineers’ inclusion in the country’s policy formulation process so that the engineering sector can assist the nation in achieving rapid development.
Gache made the advocacy at the dinner party organised by the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN ) to host women engineers from across the continent of Africa in Càlabar yesterday.
Speaking on the theme; “Engineers Innovation and Energy Security for Sustainable Future”, Gache stressed that non-inclusion of engineers in policy formulation is responsible for failure in policy implementation in the area that bothers on engineering, a situation she said is retarding the sector.
“I am very, very well acquainted with women engineers in my country,” she said.
While advising women engineers to seek leadership positions in the government of Nigeria, Gache stated that the positions would afford them the privilege of contributing their quota to the growth of the sector and the nation at large.
“You don’t make policies without engaging engineers. Engineers should also be avail the opportunity to participate in policy process and implementation.
” You cannot call engineers when you have already done the design. No nation develops without engineers being involved.
“Engineers are wired with certain challenges that can be solved only by those in the profession.
“Just give them the privilege to gather together, speak in one voice, you will see that that problem in the sector will be solved without hitch”, she maintained.
