The Lagos State Emergency
Management Agency (LASEMA) was established vide LASEMA Law 16 of 2008 for
emergency and disaster management in the State in pursuance to decree 12 of
1999 as amended by Act No. 50 of 1999 which established the National Emergency
Management Agency (NEMA). The Agency is responsible for the overall
co-ordination of emergency management in Lagos State. Below are pictures of
their new response unit at Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.
The newly deployed mobile CCTV camera procured by the Lagos State Government for the operatives of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad has recorded its first surveillance arrest. The suspect was arrested in Oshodi while the Mobile CCTV was being deployed at Oshodi to monitor the area. The suspect, Emmanuel Alowonle, an 18-year old, a native of Ondo State, disclosed during interrogation that he came to Lagos about two years ago and work as a bus conductor in the area. Politics Nigeria learned that Alowonle was arrested after stealing from another commuter's handbag on the pedestrian walkway. RRS officers spotted Emmanuel in the crowd picking from a passer-by handbag through the mobile CCTV camera. The CCTV camera was jointly managed and put into use by both RRS operatives and technical assistance officers of the Lagos State Response Unit, (LRU). LRU handled the technicalities of the camera while RRS officers took charge of the security aspect of the newly deployed mechanism. The surv
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