Hon Segun Odunmbaku while welcoming the contingent and leading them on a tour of primary health centres across Ojodu LCDA said his administration prioritizes healthcare as a cardinal policy of its government.

“It’s our policy to have a functional primary health centre in all six wards of Ojodu LCDA to provide and enhance quality healthcare for our people in line with our H.E.Y.S Agenda while collaborating with Lagos State Government and development partners.” He said.

The committee members praised the quality edifices and facilities inspected. They advised health personnel to intensify community advocacy and engagement while promising to recommend for more manpower, equipment, and supplies from the State Government.

In the contingent are Hon. Noheem Adams, Hon. Femi Saheed, Hon. Makinde Rasheed and Hon. Jude Idimogwu with Ojodu LCDA Supervisor For Health, Hon Seye Oyekan and MOH, Dr. Anne Okon.

The aircraft was designed to take aerial photo shoot of infrastructures and aerial survey throughout the length and breadth of Lagos State.

Members of the public are implored not to be perturbed by the sight of the aircraft when it’s lowered to get perfect shots.

Lawan who led a delegation of the leadership of the Senate on Thursday to assess the level of attack on the correctional facility by insurgents faulted the Nigerian Correctional Service for not providing Closed Circuit Television cameras at the Kuje correctional facility and others across the country.

Speaking after an assessment of the correctional facility, Lawan said, “The attack on this correctional facility is symptomatic of the failure of security architecture. The attack is only a culmination of the failure of security systems.

“We were told that an estimated 300 terrorists attacked this facility. They came on foot, and I believe they should have been detected.

“In the first place, three hundred people will not come for an operation like this without planning. Planning must have taken a week, a month or a bit more.

“I believe that our security agencies should have picked this from their tracking systems in the FCT.”

Lawan also expressed gross disappointment over the lack of  CCTV cameras in the facility saying that such an attack could have been altercated if the relevant authorities got signals early enough from the prison.

The Senate President then asked the Comptroller General of the NCS to include a request for the provision of CCTV cameras across maximum and medium correctional centers across the country in its 2023 budget proposal to the National Assembly for approval.

He said, “Secondly, having gone round the facility itself, we are disappointed that this facility does not have Closed  Circuit Television cameras, something that would record and give you details of what is happening and sometimes record the events.

“This is a medium security custodial center, how on earth in the FCT facility of this magnitude we don’t have CCTV? It means we can say that all other medium security centers across the country do not have CCTV.

“We have asked the Comptroller General of Correctional Centre to ensure that the request for CCTV at the maximum and medium custodial centres of the country are included in their 2023 budget because this is essential and indispensable.”

“Now, as this facility lacks a functional CCTV, there’s no record of what happened, except narration. But if we had CCTV, at least the records would have been there and analysis made, and arrest will be based on the information from the CCTV,” he stated.

The Senate President said that here people fail to do their job properly, and they have been given that responsibility, they should be asked to take responsibility.

He said, “If people don’t take responsibility for their failure, then it means nobody would bother to do what is expected of their office or the job that the person has been given.

“Having this kind of situation today in the FCT, that we have criminals who are free now all over the city is very dangerous and you can never have peace of mind

“The FCT has the seat of government, and today that seat is not safe. So, we have to do whatever it takes to get everybody back.”

Lawan, therefore, tasked the security agencies to ensure that the insurgents who escaped from the Kuje medium security custodial center are found and brought back.

Some gunmen believed to be terrorists had on Tuesday night bombed the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, Abuja, the terrorists released 600 inmates, including 15 deadly Boko Haram commanders who masterminded the March 28 attack on the Kaduna-Abuja train at Katari, Kaduna, in which eight persons were killed and over 68 passengers kidnapped.

In a twist of event on Wednessday, the Islamic State West Africa Province claimed responsibility for the attack in a 30-second video which showed the gunmen setting ablaze vehicles parked in the facility afterwhich they released some victims of the Kaduna train attack in their custody.

The Lagos State Task force seized the motorcycles  after the state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu banned their operations in six local government areas of the state.

Gboyega Akosile, Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, who disclosed this on his verified Twitter handled said these motorcycles impounded by the Lagos State Task Force are being crushed in an undisclosed location in the state.

The Chairman of the task force, CSP Shola Jejeloye, had in a statement issued on Thursday disclosed that the agency will intensify its effort in ensuring that all impounded motorcycles are crushed after following the due process.

This was on the sidelines of the ongoing African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

According to Adesina, Buhari met with Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea-Bissau, Suzi Barbosa, who gave graphic presentation of the attempt to overthrow the constitutional order in her country.

“They attempted to kill President Embalo. They destroyed the presidential palace with bazookas, killed 11 young people. It took about five hours to restore order. It was a nightmare,” she said

Adesina said Buhari pledged to consult with other leaders of the Economic Community of West African States on how full normalcy could be restored to the embattled country at the shortest possible time.

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INEC’s Chairman, Yakubu Mahmood has disclosed this during a budget defence session with the House of Reps Committee on INEC.

Yakubu further stated that they are looking at better ways to conduct free and fair elections in the country.

“I, however, urge the Senate to approve the spending of N5.2 billion from the special INEC fund to make up for the shortfall in the 2020 budget which was reduced due to the Coronavirus pandemic,” he said.

Recall that the Commission on Wednesday, November 4 announced that eligible voters’ registration exercise will commence in 2021 ahead of 2023 general election.

According to the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), some of the places in Lagos experiencing flash flood include Ikeja – Along Lagos Abeokuta Expressway – Ifako and Oworo INW 3MB – Otedola Bridge – Gbagada – Osborne – Alfred Rewane – Iju Road – Abule Egba – Odo Eran/Wemco Junction.