Over 900 closed-circuit television, CCTV, cameras have been deployed
in Lagos State and already supplying video footages to relevant
agencies, State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr. Adebiyi
Mabadeje, has said.
Mabadeje, at a briefing in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, said that the
current deployment of the CCTV by the Federal Government was not in
conflict with the earlier efforts by the state government.
According to him, the state would soon embark on the pilot resident
registration exercise, which would enable the government to collect,
collate and manage a database of all residents.
He noted that the state government had advertised and called for the
expression of interest by private investors with requisite expertise and
funding for “a world-class’’ forensic laboratory under a Public-Private
Partnership in which the government will provide land in Badagry.
Mabadeje stressed that the state government expects to receive inputs
from the Federal Government and security agencies in executing the
project, which he claimed would save the state hard-earned foreign
exchange expended in carrying out forensic investigations and studies on
crime and health-related matters overseas.
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