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[PHOTOS] Lagos Readies Drones For Monitoring Poorly Organised SME’s

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3 years ago

Aug 16, 2021.

There is a need for the Informal Business Sectors in Lagos to be more organised with the establishment of comprehensive data on their activities

Lagos State has begun monitoring and mapping informal businesses and other incidental open spaces with poor organisation, using drones. A statement from the government body announced this in a statement on Monday.

Lagos State begins using drones to monitor poorly organised businesses for improvement at Abule-Egba to Ojokoro Housing Estate and part of Berkeley Road, off the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway over the weekend,
Credit LASG

The statement read: “the Lagos State Planning and Environmental Monitoring Authority (LASPEMA) has started the mapping of Informal Business Sectors on setbacks and other incidental open spaces in the State with the use of drones.”

The General Manager of LASPEMA, Tpl. Daisi Oso, who led the technical crew for the Aerial Capture of the setbacks at Abule-Egba to Ojokoro Housing Estate and part of Berkeley Road, off the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway over the weekend, said that there is a need for the Informal Business Sectors in Lagos to be more organised with the establishment of comprehensive data on their activities.

He promised that the Agency would require more equipment such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and drones with digital cameras for capturing the colossal damage done to all the setbacks occupied by the people of the Informal Sector, comprising automobile sellers, car wash operators, iron rod sellers and block industries amongst others.

According to him, images captured with the drone will be downloaded and converted to measurable metrics for better site evaluation, beautification and improvement of the aesthetics of Lagos Urban Space.

While charging Town Planners and Engineers attached to LASPEMA to speed up their work in the areas of mapping out all the informal business sector activities on the Urban Space, such as the setbacks of roads, wetlands or under high tension and other incidental open spaces, Oso opined that these would bring about a sustainable Lagos in line with the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of the present administration.

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