The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has urged members of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners to help in tackling the brazen abuse of the Abuja’s Master Plan by adhering to its professional ethics
The appeal was made in Abuja by the Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, when he addressed members of the Institute during a Roundtable Discussion on ” Land Use Change and Challenges of Abuja Master Plan Implementation” to mark the annual week.
Attah said Town Planners’ roles are very critical to the development and sustenance of a growing capital city like Abuja, and must be taken very seriously.
He noted that the integrity of Abuja’s Master Plan wouldn’t have been gravely altered, had the Town Planners remained faithful to their professional ethics.
Attah explained that FCT ministers have given ample opportunities to the Coordinator of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, Umar Shaibu and the Director Development Control, Muktar Galadima who are members of the institute, to freely work for the preservation of the Master plan.
While he blamed most of the contraventions of Abuja’s urban and regional planning, illegalities and even indiscriminate change of land use in Abuja to Town Planners who compromised standards, he vowed that the administration would remain committed to fighting every threat to its development agenda.