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Press release
LASEMA to step up emergency management through monitoring and surveillance and additional dispatch centres
The Lagos State Government is poised towards improving the impact of emergency/disaster through effective and efficient emergency management with the use of CCTV Cameras, establishment of additional dispatched centres and stepping up of Monitoring and Surveillance Unit of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA).
The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Mr. Adesina Tiamiyu disclosed this in a meeting with all the Heads of Emergency Response Team (ERT) at Alausa Secretaria.
According to him “over 13,000 Cameras will be installed in the major flash points across the state. This means that the Agency, apart from calls from Lagosians to report emergency cases, analysts can adequately monitor from the Command and Control Centre activities across the State to activate emergency response where and when necessary.
“These combined efforts can only make Lagos safer,” he said.
The General Manager also disclosed that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the establishment of additional three Dispatch centres at Lekki, Ikorodu Road and Badagry. These will complement the existing dispatch points located at the LASEMA Response Unit, Cappa Oshodi and the Command and Control Centre, Alausa, thereby improving the response time of emergency management in the State.
Mr. Tiamiyu also stated that the Agency is stepping up the activities of Monitoring and Surveillance Unit in preventing and mitigating against unnecessary loss of lives and properties in the State. The operation will include monitoring and surveillance activities in domestic, industrial and public facilities in the State which is a paradigm shift from the orthodox strategy of waiting for emergency to occur and then respond.
He therefore noted that this approach is a practical way to reducing emergency/disasters thereby reducing the huge expenses borne by the State Government on emergency intervention and relief assistance to victims of various emergencies in the State.
Mr. Tiamiyu however expressed the need for the general public to partner with the Lagos State Government in mitigating, preventing and consequently reducing hazards, risks and vulnerability by ensuring that distress calls on emerging hazards and risks are relayed to the Agency through the toll free line 112/767 for prompt intervention.
Finally, he reiterated that the present administration of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode would not accept back seat or complacency of some individual persons, drivers or organization which may result to huge material losses and sometimes avoidable fatalities when disaster occur in the State.
Adebayo Kehinde,
Head, Public Affairs Unit,
17th January, 2017.
