The Engineering Council of Ghana says it will soon clamp down on engineers and engineering firms operating in the country without registration and licence. This is to weed out unqualified and unregistered persons and firms in the industry to promote quality service delivery. This follows the passage of the Engineering Council Regulation, Legislative Instrument L.I. 2410 (2020) by Parliament in October last year, which seeks to regularise engineering practice in the country to attain the highest professional standards and ensure efficient and quality work. Mr Kwesi Abbey Sam, the Chairman of the Board of the Council, at a news conference in Accra, said the Council had given practitioners up to November 2021 to register and obtain the licence after, which it would crackdown on practitioners who failed to do so.
There are however avenues for the country to be self-sufficient.
Senior Clinical Engineer at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Emmanuel Wireko-Brobby, has set out to drive this goal.
He recently brought out a sandal crutch to aid persons with walking disabilities.
He went further to produce theatre lamps, X-ray viewer, phototherapy machine, wheel chair, among others.
After his secondary education at KNUST Senior High School, his love for engineering pushed him to take up a technical course at the Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI).
He went on to pursue Electrical Engineering Technician Certificate programme at Kumasi Technical University.
He then proceeded to do BSc. Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.