“This is why today is a watershed day. The day when we formally launch the Lagos Residents Registration Programme that will enable us register and collate the data of all persons who are residents of Lagos. This has nothing to do with indigenes of Lagos State or ethnicity. If you are an indigene of Lagos State and you live in Jos, you are not eligible for this exercise. It is the people living here that we have direct responsibility to,” he stated. Fashola added that government came up with the idea of registering residents of Lagos because it discovered many gaps as government did not know the actual number of residents it had to plan for, stressing that the residents registration exercise would be use to fill those gaps. “For instance, we have data on the number of vehicle owners in the state but not all the residents of Lagos own cars. And we also know the number of the pupils in the public schools but not all of them attend school; all these showed that there is a gap required to be filled. He said every individual must have a means of identification that showed that he or she resided in the state, adding that data collection and gathering had become the pole standard of any community that took planning seriously, stressing that government was determined to achieve result. The governor emphasized that while the traditional methods might be useful in gathering such information, it was unarguable that accuracy was questionable as speed would become an issue, saying that “as we have seen in our attempt to try to enumerate people entitled to compensation within our State. “In an information technology driven age, data collection, processing and management has become the gold standard and the most important currency that any community can seek to acquire. General Manager, LASRRA, Ms. Olayinka Fashola, stated that the aim of the exercise was to assist government to provide adequate social amenities that would serve the people better, adding that “the exercise will assist government in roads rehabilitation, provision of more schools, power and other social amenities for the use of people. This would also enable the government to serve the people better.” She said that the agency had put together a mobile team that would move round to register the aged people and the handicaps, as it was compulsory for everybody to participate in the exercise.
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:29:25 +0000
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