Governor of the western Nigerian state of Lagos, Babatunde Raji Fashola has flagged off the statewide registration of residents, estimated at 21 million.
With the flagging off of the exercise and the inauguration of the Lagos State Residents Registration Agency, LASRRA, the data and biometric details of all residents in Lagos State will be taken.
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Flagging off the registration on Thursday at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Secretariat, Alausa, in Ikeja, the governor said no nation could survive without the means of planning for the populace, saying that the exercise, government would be able to formulate policies that would cater for the residents of the state.
“Any government that seeks the kind of efficiency that we seek, any Government that understands its primary purpose as we do, that we exist for the people and not otherwise; such a Government will pursue data collection and management as a critical infrastructure.
“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.
Culled - PMNews
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