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  • Council gets fire service station

    Council gets fire service station

    As a way of reducing the huge human and material losses associated with fire incidents, the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area has begun the construction of the first Fire Service Station in the area.

    Speaking with journalists in his office recently, the council chairman, Hon Kehinde Bamigbetan explained that the sad experience associated with past fire incidents in the council area, where there was always late arrival of Fire Service men to scene of fire incidents, because of the distance they will cover and the issue of traffic bottleneck, necessitated the provision of the fire station, which is situated at the frontage of the council secretariat.

    According to Bamigbetan, the fire service station which construction is at the roof level consists of five rest rooms, information complaint office and two offices for fire men with toilet facility.

    He added that the building also consists of six columns upon which the steel stanctions shall be constructed to serve as shelters for the fire bus.

    Bamigbetan concluded that the project is solely financed by the council and it would be commissioned before the end of the year.

    Also, numerous initiatives put together by the council to boost its revenue have started yielding positive results, as the council for the first time generated over N5m as internally generated revenue (IGR) in September.

    The council’s Supervisor for Revenue Generation and Market, Peter Ajayi, disclosed this at the council secretariat.

    The supervisor attributed the development to the introduction of various initiatives by the council chairman. Some of these initiatives, he said, include, the creation of revenue offices in the six political wards of the council, reorganisation of all revenue sections with posting of revenue officers, inauguration of the council’s Revenue Monitoring Committee, which is statutory, introduction of direct payment of council’s levies to banks instead of revenue officers and regular sensitisation of residents, through Community Development Associations and trading associations.

    Ajayi stated further that before the introduction of these initiatives, the council was generating a paltry amount between five hundred thousand naira and one million naira monthly, adding that the situation has changed since July, when the council generated over 3 million naira and in August, over four million naira.

    He praised Bamigbetan for introducing pragmatic approach towards finding solutions to the dwindling state of the council’s IGR, adding that if the current tempo is sustained, the council stands the chance of achieving is revenue target of 63 million naira as contained in this year approved budget for the council.

    The supervisor concluded that the revenue target is achievable if all franchised revenue contractors working for the council remit all their unpaid revenue targets to the council’s purse.

  • Lagos CP pledges to track down council chairman’s kidnappers

    Mr Umar Manko, the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, has pledged not to rest until those who kidnapped Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan, the Ejigbo Local Government Chairman, were fished out.

    ASP Damasus Ozoani, the deputy police spokesman at the state command, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos.

    Ozoani said that information received by the police indicated that the local government chairman was kidnapped around 11p.m. on Monday.

    Ozoani said the police were making efforts to unravel the circumstance surrounding Bamigbetan’s abduction, adding that they would try their best to rescued him.

    “The police are investigating the matter; we do not want to do our investigations on the pages of newspapers in order not to jeopardise investigators’ work,” he added.

    “We do not have the identity of the kidnappers and the driver of the vehicle used for the kidnap took to his heel.’’

    Meanwhile, sources close to the state government alleged that the suspected kidnappers had demanded 1 million dollars in ransom for his release.

  • Govt on trail of abductors of Lagos LG chairman – Commissioner

    Govt on trail of abductors of Lagos LG chairman – Commissioner

    Lagos State government has confirmed that it is in touch with some men suspected to have abducted the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan.
    The Commissioner of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs Mr Ademorin Kuye, who paid a visit to the council said security operatives are already on the trail of the abductors. He assured that
    the abductors would soon be rounded up.
    The council secretary Mr Remi Gbadegesin had earlier confirmed to our correspondent that the chairman had phoned his wife Fatimah Bamigbetan just before dawn and his abductors had demanded a ransom of $1million (about N160 million).
    A source at the council who craved anonymity said the Commissioner later addressed top management officers of the council and ordered that they should henceforth stop speaking to reporters on the issue.
    The Commissioner said the order became necessary in order to allow the security operatives do their job without any undue interference.

  • Kidnappers demand $1m for LG Chairman, Bamigbetan

    Ejigbo Local Council Development Area Chairman, Kehinde Bamigbetan has  reportedly been  kidnapped by gunmen on his way home on Monday night.

    The abductors according to the Secretary of the LCDA, Mr Remi Gbadegesin have demanded for 1 million dollars ransom as a condition for the release of the Chairman alive.

    Narrating the incident to our correspondent, the official who craved anonymity said the gunmen had waited for the chairman within the precinct of his Ona Iwa Mimo Street, Ori-Oke, Egbe Bridge house and had opened fire on sighting  him. The incident occurred around 11pm and 12 midnight.

    The official who claimed he had spoken with the driver said: “Upon realising the danger, the chairman’s driver had turned the car, and tried to escape while the men came on a hot chase shooting at the vehicle.

    “In the confusion, the chairman’s car hit an electric pole and the driver jumped out and escaped. The gunmen closed up on the car, brought out the chairman and bundled him into their car before making good their escape,” he added.

    The official said the management had made an official report to the state governor Babatunde Fashola, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, the Commissioner of Police and other party leaders on the development.

    Meanwhile workers in the council were seen discussing the development and everywhere had an eerie air of silence when our correspondent visited the council secretariat.