The Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, Dr Chime Ogbonna, has inaugurated a colloquium committee on the implementation of the 1992 Urban and Regional Planning (URP) Law (CAP 138, Laws of the FRN, 2004).
The colloquium aims to bring together a gathering of stakeholders to talk about the Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Law and its implementation during the NITP’s national/international conference.
takeholders in the built sector, members of parliament, governors, local government chairmen, community-based organizations and non-governmental organizations, among others, are expected to be at the colloquium.
The colloquium, according to the National President of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, Dr Chime Ogbonna, is a continuation of the NITP’s commitment to ensuring that the Nigerian URP Law is fully domesticated across the states of the federation and implemented.
It will be recalled that right at the investiture of the present NITP administration in December last year, Ogbonna informed the town planners and the public of the imperativeness of this.
The planned colloquium is one of the veritable tools of advocacy and engagement. This will take place in the nation’s capital city of Abuja, where the policies and politics of national affairs and nation-building take place.
“But what is indeed at stake is the imperativeness of getting the law implemented. We need this to have the legal impetus to get things done. Operating without a legal framework is like walking and working in darkness without a guide and guard. The law provides the legal compass to direct us; the legal structure for planning administration in the country. The law is what should be on our lips until we get it implemented,” the president said.
The colloquium committee is being led by Onibokun Abimbola.
Other members include Dr. Moses Ogunleye; Mukhtar Usman Galadima; Chinyere Omeh; Emeka Oko; Dr. Chinwe Ekwuribe; Barr Udegbunam Obioma; Barr. Fumi Osifuye; Mercy Ayuba and lBarr. Festus Adebayo as special adviser.