Fire outbreak, building collapse: Lagos assembly raises concern, calls for tougher safety measures

By Ebunoluwa Sessou

THE Lagos State House of Assembly has urged the State Government to measurement up its exigency effect strategy and fortify compliance with information regulations to curb the expanding occurrence incidents, gathering illness and different disasters crossed the State. The House besides called connected the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to convene a stakeholders’ gathering involving the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Lagos Safety Commission, Lagos State Command Control, Lagos State Neighborhood and the Lagos State Ambulances Service, LASAMBUS connected a sustainable semipermanent strategy for curbing incessant occurrence outbreaks crossed the State.

During the plenary, the House besides called for the afloat operational capableness of the Fire and Rescue Divisions successful Ikorodu, Badagry, Ikeja, Lagos Island, and Epe, IBILE, and guarantee the mandatory proviso of functional occurrence hydrants successful each buildings peculiarly those located successful commercialized areas successful the State.

A member, representing Amuwo-Odofin Constituency 2, Mr Rauf Age-Suleimon, successful his contribution, commended the proactive measures already taken by the authorities authorities done the upgrading of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service with modern firefighting instrumentality and the constitution of further occurrence stations crossed the authorities to guarantee punctual effect to emergencies.

He noted that respective legislative frameworks including the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency Law 2008, Lagos State Safety Commission Law 2011 and Lagos State Command and Control Law 2014 – were enacted to heighten exigency response, rescue operations and supply citizens with speedy entree to businesslike exigency services.

Age-Suleimon, expressed interest implicit the increasing inclination of unlawful conversion of nationalist buildings, spaces and residential areas into commercialized usage and markets, which helium said has placed further strain connected rescue teams and equipment.

Meanwhile, his counterparts who expressed their displeasure implicit the incessant occurrence outbreak lamented that the expanding non-compliance with municipality readying regulations, the lack of information guidelines successful high-rise buildings, and the usage of substandard materials coupled with mediocre regulatory supervision are portion of the problems.

”These factors proceed to airs existent hazard to lives and spot successful our state.”

Other members besides lamented that negligence and disregard for existing information laws person contributed to tragic incidents specified arsenic the caller occurrence outbreaks astatine Atunan Toa and Ema Plaza, which claimed lives and disrupted socio-economic activities.

The question received wide enactment from members, who unanimously agreed connected the request for stricter enforcement of information standards and improved exigency effect to safeguard lives and spot successful the state.

Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, portion calling connected the authorities authorities to guarantee the afloat operational capableness of each occurrence and rescue stations crossed the authorities urged the State Fire and Rescue Service to behaviour regular occurrence hazard assessments successful high-risk buildings, markets and nationalist spaces arsenic portion of efforts to trim fatalities during disasters.

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