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The Governor of Lagos, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday appealed to people and organisations to help his authorities’s dream of sustaining safety of lives and properties within the State by means of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund.
He spoke throughout a non-public breakfast assembly with choose Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers of assorted corporations, organised by the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF) within the Ikoyi space of Lagos to lift funds for vital safety wants for 2026.
Some of the safety wants are multipurpose safety helicopters and drones, APCs and Water cannons, tactical coaching and infrastructural improve for the Police, digital communication gear and Smart CCTV Cameras, automobiles and an extremely fashionable mechanical workshop, amongst others.
Speaking through the breakfast assembly, Governor Sanwo-Olu mentioned previous interventions have been effectively utilised by the Lagos State Security Trust Fund to empower safety companies for a protected and safe atmosphere, noting that the mannequin has been adopted by different subnational and federal governments, whereas some are attempting to repeat and reside with it.
He mentioned: “On a year-on-year foundation, the Lagos State Government has by no means taken a again seat on her accountability. We nonetheless fund effectively over 50 per cent of no matter it’s that occurs year-on-year. But we wished it to be one thing that the personal sector can belief, they usually can see that their help always is all the time judiciously used. There is accountability, and the funds are transparently deployed always.
“We are rebuilding the Command and Control Center with state-of-the-art gear that will probably be put in there. We are putting in CCTV cameras. We began with a protected metropolis mannequin. We thought we have been going to have the ability to do between 5,000 to 10,000 cameras for Lagos alone. We haven’t gone far on that and we wish to scale it up.
“We want to ensure that Lagos continues to remain secure. We want to improve the rescue ability, capacity, and capability of our first responders.”
