FCTA urges town planners to end abuse on Abuja Master Plan

The Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA) has urged members of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners to help in tackling the brazen abuse on the Abuja’s Master Plan, by adhering to its professional ethics. The Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah made the appeal when he addressed […]

The Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA) has urged members of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners to help in tackling the brazen abuse on the Abuja’s Master Plan, by adhering to its professional ethics.

The Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah made the appeal when he addressed members of the Institute during a Roundtable Discussion on “ Land Use Change and Challenges of Abuja Master Plan Implementation” to mark their annual week.

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Attah said that town planners’ roles were very critical to the development and sustainance of a growing capital city, like Abuja, and must be taken very seriously. 

He noted that the integrity of the Abuja’s Master Plan wouldn’t have been gravelly 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.

Attah said, “ Town planners’ roles are very critical and FCTA takes them as key components. If alterations will happen in the city, they are the ones that may be approached by those who want to distort the plans.

“FCTA is making the appeal to them, to stand by their professional ethics and also see themselves as being key to Abuja project. 

“We are appealing to them to live up to their ethics and do not compromise, but work hard and ensure they protect the Master Plan im its entirety”, he added. 

Also speaking, the Director of FCTA Development Control, Muktar Galadima blamed members of the Institute for the abuses of Abuja’s Master Plan.

In his contribution, the Chairman of Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, FCT Chapter, Mustapha Mudir, who acknowledged that there were few members who have forsaken their professional ethics, pleaded with them to refrain from the acts that could jeopardise human existence