NITP Set For Repositioning

The Nigeria Institute of Town Planners (NITP), has rolled out its plans and programmes to reposition the profession to take its rightful position in building and construction sector in Nigeria.
This was disclosed by the Lagos State chairman of the professional body, Mr. Moses Ogunleye while speaking with the National Mirror on the plan of the present executives under his leadership to reposition the profession for economic, physical and human development of the nation.
According to him, “basically we are concerned about adding value to Town Planning profession. The present executive is looking at how to boost the image of Town Planners, how we can let World know the value of Town Planners and showcase our impact on national development”.
Ogunleye who was elected as the Chairman of Nigeria Institute of Town Planners (NITP), in August this year disclosed that the present executive of the NITP is set to work extensively with various stakeholders in building and construction industry.
Parts of such stakeholders according to him includes government, private sector, international development agencies and the people in academia so as to ensure collaborative efforts of all these stakeholders to build strong and virile nation in the area of  physical and town planning.
The NITP chairman in Lagos State explained that there is wide gap between the public and Town Planners, hence, there is urgent need to bridge the gap.
“We believe strongly that there is still a disconnect between the public and Town Planners and we want to remove that disconnection, bringing so much interaction and explain to the people the importance of Town Planners”.
Ogunleye maintained that the attitude of people towards Town Planners has caused terrible problem for proper physical planning and provision of conducive environment for them to live in Nigeria.
“We want people to know the value of Town Planners and make them realize that they deserve a conducive neighbourhood. We want the masses to know that if they fail to plan their neighbourhood, it will be chaotic and would not be healthy for them to leave.
“There will be too many inadequacies of facilities, problem of housing and problem of location, so we are trying to reach out to the masses as much as possible to obey planning regulation and also for the government to intensify its enforcement on planning regulation”, he stated