Lagos Mulls Security Buffer Zone To Tackle Kidnapping
Lagos State Government at the weekend said it has acquired five hectares of land to establish a security buffer zone for security operatives at Igbodu Community in Epe area of Lagos notorious for kidnapping activities to check incessant attacks from kidnappers ..
The state Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Muslim Folami disclosed this at the weekend during a press conference in Lagos..
He said government was determined to arrest the rising wave of kidnapping in Epe area of the state and had therefore acquired the hectares of land for security operatives to effectively checkmate activities of kidnappers.
Harping on the forthcoming local government election, the commissioner said the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission had put in place all necessary measures to ensure that the polls hold as planned.
Folami added that the government had engaged Community Development Associations, CDAs and members of Community Development Committees, CDCs in the state to take ownership of some of its community-based projects for adequate monitoring, management and supervision.
According to him, the various CDAs and CDCs across the State presently provide a platform through which government tested the viability of its plans, policies and programmes and also obtains feedback from members of the public on the acceptability of government projects.
Folami said the 117 community roads delivered by the state government in all the Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs had been handed over to members of CDAs and CDCs to manage and maintain in conjunction with the Sole Administrators of the various councils.
The commissioner declared that in the last one year, the governor had in addition to the already delivered 117 roads, executed several other community-friendly policies like inauguration and revival of the market committee, adding that the governor had also directed LGAs and LCDAs to ensure that monthly allowances were given to CDAs to power light and maintain street lights on newly delivered roads.
“In its unwavering efforts to sustain community development, the state government also distributed three branded vehicles to the best three communities that excelled in self- help development initiatives in the State and gave cash prizes to seven CDAs as consolation prizes as a way of encouraging community-communalism” he said..
