The President of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, Dr Chime Ogbonna, has called on the federal government to ensure complete implementation of the Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Law as the Institute prepares for its upcoming 56th annual conference set to hold in Abuja
Dr Chime Ogbonna In an exclusive interview with Housing Tv, called on the government to provide a town planning law that would guide the activities of planners
“The major challenge facing town planners is that Nigeria as a country is working without any town planning laws guiding our activities”
“In 1992, the federal government in its wisdom promulgated what we call today The Nigerian Urban Regional planning law and that law from what we know took over all town planning activities in Nigeria. It repelled every town planning law that ever existed in Nigeria before 1992”
“As we speak that law is not being implemented in this country, worse at the federal level because we are supposed to have in line with the provision of that law the National Urban and Regional commission at the federal level. That commission will be constituted by town planners, architects, land surveyors, builders, quantity surveyors, lawyers, civil engineers but because the commission is not in place, things go the way they should not go”
The President further urged government to review its laws and make provisions for adequate checkmate and implementation to avoid loss of properties and natural disasters such as flooding in the near future
