He said that this year\u2019s engineering conference comes at time when African cities are rapidly growing and generating big volumes of waste, a challenge which he said needs strong measures for adequate and sustainable development in the critical sector of human existence and well-being.<\/p>\n
\u201cScience and technology have always been some of the strongest pillars of prosperity and development, no country has ever moved from developing to developed status without adequate engineers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe that one of Africa\u2019s most important resource is the skills of its people. A well trained labour force is the single most important enabler of economic transformation for African countries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He said that the investment in quality education is required to develop schemes and explore solutions to engineering challenges of the continent.<\/p>\n
Using an example of Rwanda, Ngirente said that the country has established special educational institutions that train scientists, engineers and specialists.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis conference is an opportunity to remind our engineers of their role in promoting innovative engineering services. Our call to you is to uphold professionalism, build and consolidate true values and ethics expected from engineering profession,\u201d he urged engineers.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome up with answers to what African engineering fraternity should do to create confidence and trust within systems of African governments\u201d he added.
\nNgirente also encouraged engineers to take concrete measures in dealing with colleagues who do not respect ethics and professionalism.<\/p>\n
The president of Institute if Engineers in Rwanda Eng. Papias Dedeki Kazawadi said that participants will discuss best waste management practices.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on skills and experiences from different individuals, we believe that Rwandans will also benefit from them as long as they acquire waste management techniques practices that have brought some impact in other countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Dr. Eduard Ngirente has said that no country has ever moved from developing to developed status without adequate training and deployment of engineers, calling upon those involved in the planning and execution of engineering-related projects to be more articulate as they build foundations for sustainable development.
\nNgirente who was officiating at the opening of a five-day \u2018Africa Engineering Conference\u2019 in Kigali under the theme <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35915"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35915"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}