Lagos, police partner to rebuild 25 police barracks
The Lagos State Government said on Friday that plans have been concluded for the state government to remodel and rehabilitate 25 police barracks in Lagos State.
The Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Housing, Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka, said the initiative was in partnership with the Nigeria Police Force.
A statement said Benson-Awoyinka averred that the officials of the Nigeria Police Force across the nation and their families deserve better habitation and befitting infrastructure amenities at the barracks in order to enhance their service delivery.
She said, “The Lagos State Government will facilitate all planning works and building approvals needed for the realization of the projects and will also make sure that buildings are constructed to acceptable standard.
“The initiation of the regeneration plans shows that both the federal and the state governments take the welfare of the security operatives seriously.
“The governments are passionate about the welfare of the members of the force, hence necessitated the regenerations of these barracks within Lagos State.”
She appreciated the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Federal Government through the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Baba, for putting heads together for the initiative of giving a facelift to police barracks in Lagos State.
Also speaking, the Special Adviser E-GIS and Planning Matters to the Governor, Dr Olajide Babatunde, said the move to regenerate the barracks would help avoid building collapse.
He said the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, had severally certified some police barracks in the state as unfit for habitation.
Speaking earlier, the Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, commended the initiative.
Adejobi said the initiative was timely as it is fundamental to address the longstanding issue of poor and dilapidated infrastructures within facilities occupied by police personnel to ensure improved working conditions for more effective and efficient service delivery.
The FPRO said the IGP had announced plans for series of sensitization and relocation efforts for police personnel living in the affected barracks from 1st to 31st of May, 2023.
Adejobi said that the IGP had issued directive that those affected be issued a one-month notice to vacate their accommodation spaces, adding that the directive would be implemented in stages to ensure that all officially recognised and lawful residents of the affected barracks were properly catered for.
Adejobi said, “Plans have also been concluded to foot the alternative accommodation cost of all legal residents of the affected barracks with the payment of two years rent when construction works will end.
“With the successful planning of these projects, potential officers deployed to Lagos State Police Command upon completion of the buildings will be living in a modernized facilities that will add values to the state’s social, economic and environmental profile to the Nigeria Police Force”.
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