By Emeka Aginam
The President/ Chairman of Computer Professionals
Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN, Prof. Vincent Asor has warned, again,
that the Council was determined to fish out quacks practicing Information
Technology in the country without appropriate registration, just as the Council
inducted no fewer than 300 new members into the IT profession.
Asor, who stated this yesterday in Kaduna at the
ongoing 2016 Information Technology Professionals Assembly noted that Act 49 of
1993 that established CPN makes it mandatory for all persons and organizations
seeking to engage in the sale and/or use of computing facilities, and/or the
provision of professional services in computing in the country to be registered
by the Council and licensed to carry out such activities.
“It is definitely illegal to engage in computing
professional practice without satisfying the above conditions registration and
possession of a current valid”, he told the gathering at the forum with the
theme: “towards a dependable and sustainable national IT infrastructure’.
“By the nature of the profession, which makes it
possible for a lot of people to use IT tool in their daily day to day
operations, some people are now claiming to be what they are not.
Also, those who are not qualified to execute IT jobs
are the ones getting it. This is quite absurd and unacceptable to us.
Therefore, as professionals, you have to join forces with us in fighting the
scourge”, he explained.
Persons and corporate bodies that are registered
with CPN, apart from being eligible to carry out business, he informed, stand
to enjoy many benefits including raising professional standards/status and
recognition as a registered computing practitioners that is allowed to use
Chartered Information Technology Practitioner (C.I.T.P) after their names,
projection from the public from exploitation, harassment in the course of
performing bonafide, legitimate professional activities, among other benefits.
While welcoming the new inductees, he said that the
legitimization of their professional practice in IT sector has just begun.
Noting that the new inductees must channel their energies and talents on
positive things that would benefit their organization and the nation, he said
that they were expected to contribute towards the development of the Nigerian
IT ecosystem.
He noted that CPN was established to determine what
standards of knowledge and skills are to be attained by persons seeking to
become members of the computing profession and improving those standards from
time to time , the establishment and maintenance of a register of persons
seeking to be registered under the decree to practice the computing profession
in Nigeria.
Earlier in his induction lecture titled: “The significance of
professionalism, IT ethics and codes of professionals practice, the Pioneer
President/Chairman of Council of CPN, Mr. Tunde Ezichi told the new inductees
that they must not go against codes of ethics of the IT profession. According
to him, CPN has a mechanism for checkmating erring and recalcitrant members,
adding that disciplinary action would be taking against any member to go
against the ethics of the IT practice in Nigeria.
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