L-R; Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade; Speaker, Lagos House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (signing the Property Protection and Neighborhood Sfety Agency Laws); Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem and Special Adviser to the Governor on Civic Engagement, Mr. Kehinde Joseph, watch, at the Conference Room, Lagos House, Ikeja.
Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday fulfilled
his pledge of making the menace of land grabbing in Lagos a thing of the past
with the signing of the Lagos State Properties Protection Law.
Governor Ambode also signed the Lagos State Neighborhood
Safety Corps Law, a move which is majorly aimed at boosting security of lives
and property in all the Local Government Area and Local Council Development
Areas of the State.
Governor Ambode said the laws were central to his
administration’s focus of safeguarding the lives of all residents, as well as
attracting growing investments and improving the ease of doing business in the
state.
The Governor explained that with the new laws established,
the Neighborhood Safety Agency will be charged with the responsibility of
registering all private home security and any other person employed for private
home security amongst other things.
The Lagos State Properties Protection Laws main objective is
to ensure that our investors, businessmen and the general populace carry on
their legitimate land/property transactions without any hindrance or
intimidation henceforth.
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