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Lagos State Government has called for concerted efforts to achieve a zero fire incident in the market places in the state with the inauguration of Safety and Emergency Marshals.

The government through the Safety Commission said it has become important to have market representatives that will ensure emergency preparedness in Lagos Markets to prevent fire disaster.

Speaking at Obanikoro Market Lagos Island, the Director Lagos State Safety Commission, Mr Lanre Mojola said that the training was designed to avail the participants on the hazards identification, prevention, recovery.and response around the markets.

He mentioned that the past fire disasters had caused the state in of compensation to the victims and also caused insurance costs to the market men and women, and that has made the agency to recalibrate its programme by consistently sensitising the people and train them on how to identify hazards.

"He said Safety is a collective responsibility and what we have decided to do is to take samples of market men and women and train them on principles of safety.

"Today we have brought together a team of 50 people that were being trained on market safety and they will be the first set of market safety fire wardens in this market.

"We are trying to enlighten them, so that we do not have any fire disaster. We are taking them through the causes of fire, the idea of leaving the electric sockets on after work, placement of the generator inside their shops and lack of fire extinguishers is improper. But beyond fire, we still have risks in the market, we have others, like running and flying cables and all that. So, It is a holistic measure on how we can have safer markets and ensure a sustainable market with zero fire incidents going forward in Lagos State."

Mojola stated that the delay in the convocation of the safety team in Lagos Island market was to put the necessary measures in place.

According to him "It is not difficult getting the people together, we have done this in a number of smaller markets across the state, but the reason why we have delayed the one for Lagos Island is because we wanted to get our model right and I believe we have our model right now because now, we have involved the Locals, CDA, CDC, the Head of Markets, among others, so we are applying top down and bottom up approach. They will be the first line of whistle blowers that will identify some of these infractions and we are empowering them to report directly to us. They have become a board where they can also regulate activities in the market, to check against smoking, cooking, use of generators in the markets.

Earlier, the Technical Adviser, Lagos Safety Commission, Mr. Seun Awojobi explained that markets are vital to the economic development of the State and it remained the hub of commerce and they must be protected from hazards such as fire outbreak, accident and others.

Awojobi who spoke through a staff of the agency, Mrs Omowunimi Ibraheem stressed that accidents can be brought to zero if everyone takes responsibility, as he assured that the programme would go a long way to foster a culture of safety and ensure safer Lagos that will be envious of all.

A facilitator at the training, Mr. Adeyinka Adebiyi exposed the participants to hazards in the markets and reeled out comprehensive principles of safety.

Adebiyi mentioned that the agency has Inaugurated the Safety Marshals as a form of preventive mechanism to ensure there are no infractions in the market and that people are not endangered as they will serve as the mouth piece of the government.

He urged them to monitor other market s to ensure they always switch off the electric sockets before leaving the markets and comply with all safety standards to avoid any form of accident.

The Chairman, Community Development Association of the area, Mr Sunday Ogunlana and leader of Obanikoro Market, Mr Lateef Iyaniwura, both commended the initiative by the state government towards ensuring fire incidents in the marketplace is reduced to its bearest minimum.
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More agberos to frustrate hard working traders.

Another avenue to reap people of there hard earn money

Again

Waiting remain for this country

Another Oluomo loading...

Good one

Agbero

Okay

Good initiative if they will not soon turn to Owomida bandits

These ones go Dey feel like small Gods now same with Neighbourhood security watch, everything just funny for this country.

Ok cool

Nice one.

This is another means of extortion.

dam2000:
Another avenue to reap people of there hard earn money

Don’t be foolish always

Do you know who a safety marshal is ?

They lookout for near miss and call the market authorities to action before it becomes an accident such as fire 🔥 and building collapse for example

Another powers to abgeros... Lagos State with Abgeros

Wow, doing it without noise..

dam2000:
Another avenue to reap people of there hard earn money

never see good people,when una no even get fire service for una state,how do you want to appreciate developments.in the next 30years now you will see your state government doing the same.
The same Lagos they smuggled most of them into,it is one brother that came to Lagos that will go back and bring another 5 of them with polybag,when they come they will be exhibiting stupidity.

These miscreants constituting nuisance on the railways should be dealt with decisively. If you can't afford a shop or stall, then go back to wherever you crawl from.
It's not a must to be in Lagos.

dam2000:
Another avenue to reap people of there hard earn money

E no concern you. Solufo dey deal with poor Ugwu seller for Anambra u no complain

Oowwoommiiddaaaa!

Noted.

Kingdavid579:
Good one

Please what is good about this new system of government raising money from the public without any commensurate services and utilities, which is T-Pain’s Lagos master plan for the past 25 years plus

Realdeals:


Jakande @ 90: 9 Achievements of Alhaji Lateef Jakande as Lagos Governor

1. The first governor to present a billion Naira state budget in Nigeria.

2. He phased out the shift system in Lagos schools in three months. He built functional classrooms to absorb those who only attend schools for three hours a day.

3. He opened up what is now known as the Lekki Corridor.

4. He built the biggest Housing estate by a state government at Abesan, along with five other estates.

5. He built LASU, LACOED, LASPOTECH and Technical schools to absorb the products of the free education policy.

6 He built General Hospitals and Health centers in all the five divisions of Lagos. He also upgraded General Hospital Ikeja to the Medical arm of LASU.

7. He created the Agric hub at Oko Oba. He also created similar hubs in Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry.

8. His government’s strict adherence to the party manifesto of Free Education, Free Health care, Rural integration and Housing for all, along with other UPN governors, created the largest pool of human resources in Nigeria.

9. He moved the Lagos State Government Secretariat from PWD to Alausa, which he built from scratch. He also lived in his personal house and drove his personal car throughout his tenure.

Gani Kayode Balogun Jr

https://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/showtime-people/2019/07/24/jakande-90-9-achievements-of-alhaji-lateef-jakande-as-lagos-governor/

Give a Nigerian a uniform and watch him morph into a monster in front of your very eyes

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Good development!!


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MICHEALADEX:


Don’t be foolish always

Do you know who a safety marshal is ?

They lookout for near miss and call the market authorities to action before it becomes an accident such as fire 🔥 and building collapse for example

mad man what did Lagos create lastma to be doing what did they end up doing I give you one year your mom and grandma in the market will start voicing out

dam2000:
Another avenue to reap people of there hard earn money

That is very proactive of the state, thinking ahead of issues and prepared solutions ahead is better that what they will make from it

Hope these ones no go agbero dey collect market and stall dues😹?

SatoshiX:
These miscreants constituting nuisance on the railways should be dealt with decisively. If you can't afford a shop or stall, then go back to wherever you crawl from.
It's not a must to be in Lagos.

But it’s a must for Lagosians to be in London, Las Vegas etc constituting nuisance to oyinbos who have water in their houses and free education for all their children in addition to good mass transport system

dam2000:
Another avenue to reap people of there hard earn money

are you from Lagos?

Na so e dey start but will later turn into a nightmare for Lagosians like LASTMA.