Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday, inaugurated a six-man ad hoc committee to investigate the 24 billion Naira Light-Up Project by the state government.
The inauguration of the committee followed the resolution at the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, at the assembly complex in Ikeja, as the six-man committee to include: Abiodun Tobun, Desmomd Elliot, Stephen Ogundipe, Abiodun Orekoya, Femi Saheed and Sabur Oluwa.
She said that the committee was expected to report back to the assembly in the next two weeks, stressing that all hands must be on deck to light up Lagos, adding that the project was important to people in all the nooks and crannies of Lagos state.
She said the purpose of the discussion was for the people of the state to have the benefits of having lights on their streets and ensuring that they were able to guarantee the security of lives and property.
“This is the only way to reduce the problem of insecurity; when everywhere is very dark, you need to know who is approaching you so as to find out if the person intends to attack you; that is what the project intends to achieve.
“It is also important at this point to sensitise the local government chairmen that any road contract given out, street lights should be part of it.
“They should go together and not to start cutting cost, thereby making government to start breaking anything again after constructing the roads,” she said.
Meranda also said that street lights could be done in the state, adding that all it required was for people to be trained on how to produce and install them.
“If we can produce transformers through Minister of Power, street lights and solar street lights should be the least of the things we can do. So I think all hands must be on deck in order to light up Lagos.
“Production of street lights is something very important and I think we should start looking towards that direction in order to get that fixed,” she said.
The speaker said that the state and local governments should up their games in the aspect of maintenance culture, adding that they shouldn’t wait till when everything broke down.
