President, Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP), Olutoyin Ayinde, has urged state governors to comply with the urban and regional planning law to enhance development.
He made the call in Abuja at the weekend while giving an update on the advocacy visits of the institute to states.
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He said: “After visiting 20 states, speaking physically to seven state governors, the general view is that Nigerian governments are largely lawless and ignorant with only a few showing willingness to get rid of these limitations.”
Ayinde said Kwara and Imo were among the states that were yet to domesticate the Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Law Act 2004.
“In the absence of policies that deliver good governance, the people resort to self-help and no approach to development is more dangerous than this – when everyone takes their destiny in their own hands,” he said.
