Sanwo-Olu to host stakeholders at the LSSTF 13th town hall meeting

Adeyinka ADERIBIGBE

OVER a thousand critical stakeholders, including corporate organisations and philanthropists, would on Tuesday grace the 13th edition of the Town Hall Meeting of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, (LSSTF) the fund’s Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Abdurrazaq Balogun has said.

Balogun while addressing a pre-event press conference at his Alausa, Ikeja office, said the event, will afford the Governor Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu an opportunity to lay before corporate Nigerians who has been long time partner of the Fund his administration’s policies and programmes as it relates to security.

Also expected to brief members if the public is the new Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu, who is expected to give a comprehensive report of the activities of the police under his command and the strategies for crime prevention in the state.

He said the Town Hall meeting is an annual event where the trust fund gives an account of all that it receives and how they were spent. He said this is with a view to engendering the trust of members of the public especially corporate entities to ensuring that they continue to donate for the purpose of securing the state.

He said: “Conversations around security has to change from being reactive to being proactive. We must also see why we need to continue to donate to the trust fund in order to ensure that the state is kept safe.

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He said though prevailing challenges in Lagos is not peculiar, to effectively police the megacity requires the cooperation of all to report crime on time to the relevant security agencies since the criminals are humans too.

He said the Find has advocated the massive deployment of technology based gadgets and artificial intelligence gadgets and tools to complement the effort of policemen whose number are too few to effectively police a megacity like Lagos.