Fashola Tasks New Members Of Town Planners On Professionalism

Minister of works and housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola has charged the 12 newly inaugurated members of the Town Planners Registration Council of Nigeria (TOPREC) to adhere to the ethics of the profession.

The minister gave this charge yesterday while inaugurating the new council members at the ministry’s headquarters, Abuja. He charged them not to only uphold the standard and guidelines of the profession but raise them because it is only by doing this that the challenges faced in urban planning and development could be surmounted.

Fashola explained that the essence of constituting the Town Planners Registration Council of Nigeria was to ensure that the country has a professional council that would in turn ensure that the professional town planners are registered as members of the council.

According to him, “The twelve members were representatives of their different states. As more members are appointed from other states, they would join the council in accordance to the law.”

In his welcome address, the permanent secretary, Bashir Nura Alkali, FCI, noted that the presence of well – disciplined and adequately regulated professionals in the built environment, would improve the quality of output of the professionals and invariably contribute to the quality of the environment, construction, infrastructure and national development.

He said that, TOPREC, as a critical agency of government under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing had the statutory mandate to regulate and control the practice of the profession of physical planning in all ramification in Nigeria.