The Lagos State government has spent over N6.6 billion to equip security agencies in the last six months, the Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Samuel Babatunde Adejare, has revealed.
According to Adejare, the state government made security a priority to create the enabling environment for businesses to thrive, and as well encourage local and foreign investors to continue to do their businesses within the state,
He said: “The administration boosted the Police with equipment worth N4.8billion last December, with more added recently by President Muhammadu Buhari. In other words, the state has, in all, spent over N6.6billion to equip security agencies in the past six months.”
The Commissioner spoke on the sideline of the “Business Luncheon for Managing Directors/CEOs” organized by the Ikeja branch of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) in Lagos, at the weekend.
With Manufacturing in a depressed economy: The way forward as its theme, the forum ex-rayed the challenges facing manufacturers particularly under the current foreign exchange (forex) crisis with a view to proffering solutions.
Adejare, who was Special Guest of Honor at the luncheon, said with the huge investment in security, the Police now have more attack helicopters, patrol vehicles, power bikes, gunboat armoured personnel carriers (APC), and bullet proof vests.
He also said an aggressive inter-modal infrastructure provision in the transport sector has seen the injection of 434 new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) vehicles in the Ikorodu corridor as well as the re-launch of the Blue Rail Project.
