The Vice-Chancellor of the College of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole, has charged professionals to not go away Nigeria within the arms of politicians alone.
Egbewole, a authorized practitioner and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, said this in Abeokuta, Ogun State, whereas delivering a lecture titled: “City Planners, Sustainable Growth and Nation Constructing” on the tenth Waheed Kadiri Lecture Collection on Thursday.
The annual lecture is organised by the Ogun State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of City Planners in honour of the previous Rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Dr. Waheed Kadiri.
He mentioned there may be hazard in leaving politicians solely in control of creating Nigeria, saying “to a big extent, our decision-makers are illiterate”.
“It’s now extra crucial to permit professionals to construct our nation than succumb to the manipulations of the few and octopus known as authorities as represented by few misguided public officers”, Egbewole mentioned.
He charged city planners “to advertise full of life and self-sustaining communities, city planning propositions have to be ingenious to foster a mixture of residential, industrial and leisure land makes use of and implement zoning restrictions that permit for mixed-use initiatives, constructing a sense of neighborhood and decreasing commuting lengths, so far as practicable.
“Each plan needs to be people-centred. As a course of, planning should observe the dictates of Peoples Main in Addressing their Wants (PLAN) that enables the focused beneficiaries to take main roles in conception and settings.
“City planners should prioritise and plan for environment friendly and well-maintained infrastructure, together with transportation, utilities and public providers that meet future necessities and supply honest entry to important providers”.
In his comment, Kadiri known as for strict implementation of presidency insurance policies and plans on city regeneration to forestall pure disasters.
