The 2023 gubernatorial candidate for the Action Alliance Party in Kogi State, Otunba Olayinka Braimoh, who is also an expert in urban development has sent condolence message to the victims and their families in the recent tragedy in Felele, where some lives were lost.
He stated the cause to be flawed urban planning.
Otunba Braimoh, in a statement, stated;
“I have watched and read stakeholders trying to proffer solutions to these issues. To address any issue, should we not go to the root cause rather than treating the effects? The root cause here is the fundamental planning error.
“In standard urban planning, access to arterial roads are taking from collector roads and not directly from every plot on the arterial road. The arterial roads move the traffic to highways. But in the case of Kogi and several other states, the professional standards have been jettisoned due to ignorance, negligence, and lack of visionary leadership.
“Where there’s no order, chaos is inevitable. The erroneous urban planning, either due to ignorance or negligence, has brought about the chaos on the federal highway in this area and many other parts of the state. As a result, the state government, via the urban planning department, should urgently reassess urban replanning of developments around federal highway”. Braimoh concluded.