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Lagos To Install 13,000 CCTV Cameras To Fight Crime

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Lagos State said yesterday that plans are underway to deploy 13,000 Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras across the state, additional 6,000 streetlights and  security sensors to enhance surveillance and crime prevention.

The plan, the government said, will ensure safety of lives and property of residents.

Commissioner for Information and Strategy Mr. Steve Ayorinde and other top government officials, who broke the news, assured residents that the CCTV would become operational from October.

The commissioner added that the government has concluded plans to decongest traffic along the Lekki-Epe Expressway through the removal of three roundabouts; namely the Fourth Roundabout (Elegushi); Fifth Roundabout (Jakande) and the Eighth Roundabout (VGC).

He said the affected roundabouts would be replaced by the use of traffic lights, expansion of the roads and provision of dedicated turning lanes as well as additional lay-bys.

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Lagos to install 13,000 CCTV cameras to fight crime

Kaduna To Install CCTV Cameras To Fight Crime

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The Kaduna State Government is to install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras across the state to fight crime.

Coordinator of the state security outfit,  “Operation Yaki”, Col. Yakubu Yusufu Soja, disclosed this at a news conference marking the first anniversary of the administration of Governor Nasir El-Rufai in Kaduna state.

He said work on the installation of CCTV cameras across the state has reached an advanced stage, adding that  unmanned aerial vehicle also known as drones were being procured for effective surveillance.

He said operatives of the security outfit, made up of the police, civil defence and the military, were being trained to use the new security gadgets.

He said further that the state government plans to procure  modern crime-detecting devices and more operation vehicles to the security  outfit in order to face the challenges of  intelligence gathering and surveillance throughout the state.

“It is hoped that if this tempo is sustained the rate of crime and criminality would be reduced to the barest minimum in the state in order to pave way for the development agenda of this administration,” Soja said.

Credit: Thisday

INEC Urges Voters to Bring Camera to Polling Units

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged voters to come to the voting centers with cameras to capture any ugly event that may unfold.

Edwin Nwatarali, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Anambra State, said this will help forestall sharp practices by staff of the commission and politicians. Nwatarali, who was speaking at a stakeholders meeting organized by the commission in Awka, said the commission can not act on electoral offences committed by its staff without proof.

The tapping of such sharp practices ,according him, will serve as proof that the commission can use against electoral offenders.

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