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Always Give Immediate Access To Emergency Responders, LASEMA Urges Lagos Residents
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LASEMA said some Lagos residents display lackadaisical attitude towards emergency responders.
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The agency appealed to such residents to change their attitude.
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The LASEMA boss highlighted the agency’s achievements in 2022 and revealed plans for 2023.
Eko Hot Blog reports that the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, has bemoaned the “lackadaisical attitude” some residents display toward active emergency responders in the state.
He expressed the concern on Wednesday while briefing journalists at the Conference Room of the Command and Control Centre, Alausa, Lagos State.
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Oke-Osanyintolu lamented that recalcitrant residents cause lack of immediate access to emergency scenes.
“Lackadaisical attitude of some Lagos residents and lack of immediate access to emergency scenes are some of the challenges being encountered by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA,” the LASEMA boss said.
LASEMA Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu
He, therefore, appealed to residents to change their attitude towards disaster and emergency management in the state.
Oke-Osanyintolu promised to ensure that the golden response hour is reduced to five to ten minutes in 2023.
He stated that about 1,682 major disasters were recorded in Lagos last year.
The LASEMA chief, however, boasted that the fatality rate was very low compared to previous years.
He noted that the feat was achieved due to the sophisticated equipment put in place by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration and the team spirit of all emergency responders in the state.
Oke-Osanyintolu assured that the agency would build more human capacity among all emergency responders to reduce mortality rate to the barest minimum.
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The LASEMA boss also hinted that a new emergency control centre will be built in the Badagry axis of the state before the end of 2023.
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