May 7, 2009
The Lagos State Government has installed about 90 Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras across the State to protect life and property as well as nab anyone who illegally uses the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lane.
Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, commissioner for Science and Technology, who disclosed this at a radio programme, added that the cameras have been used to arrest criminals who robbed a woman because the camera recorded the incident and the robbers were later arrested by the police because their pictures were captured.
Hamzat said Information Communication Technology (ICT) has been fully deployed by the State in carrying out many government activities in the area of health services, education, judicial process and obtaining of certificate of occupancy among others.
On the possibility of vandalising the camera, Hamzat said this cannot be too possible since the locations of the cameras are not known and due to the fact that the cameras monitor one another.
According to him, “if someone is trying to tamper with camera A, camera B is surely monitoring it. We will have what we call the ring toplogy, that is some will overlap, so that if camera A and B is checking a particular direction camera C and D will also be looking at 15 per cent same direction and 85 percent of somewhere else, so by that we have an overlap”.
He informed that about 80 schools in the State have been provided with Information Communication Technology laboratories in order to give students in the State secondary schools an opportunity to interact with the outside world and at the same time improve their knowledge base. “In this regard, science base teachers have been trained on techniques for teaching science based subjects to facilitate assimilation”, he said.
On the Health Management Information System (HMIS) introduced by the State Government, the commissioner stated that this will ensure the improvement of the quality of health care delivery services in the state.
He explained that with the development, the registration of all patients in Lagos State Hospitals on a Central computer server will eliminate queues usually found in the medical record in all State hospitals and doctors will have access to patient’s medical history anywhere within the state.
He said the first phase of the project started with 3 hospitals which were used for the pilot scheme.
The hospitals are Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja; General Hospital Isolo and General Hospital Lagos.
The link of these hospitals has been commissioned since last year while the second phase involving ten General Hospitals have commenced.
The hospitals on the second phase, according to him, include General Hospital Gbagada, General Hospital Alimosho, General Hospital Orile-Agege, General Hospital Surulere, General Hospital Badagry and General Hospital Ajeromi

nice one
not a bad idea

eko o ni baje o !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck Lagosians!

Whats is happening with the development of Oyo State specifically the State Capital, Ibadan?

No electricity in Caaso/Adura community in Ijaye-Ojokoro for the past six months.
Hope the cctv cameras are not to cover this area,

Good one.Other State should emulate this

what ll the maintance be like

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A good development

Long May You Live Uncle Fash

Wish others can take a cue rather than embebbezling

KUDOS TO THE FASHOLA LED ADMINISTRATION. I FEEL SO GOOD ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENTS.
GOOD DAYS ARE HERE IN LAGOS, AND BETTER ONES ARE NEAR!
EKO O NI BAJE O!

Cctv cameras will reduce criminal crimes in Lagos state.

My Uncle was murdered 2Yrs ago in Lagos/Ogun state, this would've helped if this was in place.

what is main objective of this CCTV - is it crime or transportation easing.

lwise:

No electricity in Caaso/Adura community in Ijaye-Ojokoro for the past six months.
Hope the cctv cameras are not to cover this area,

[b]no worry na small small!am sure the cctv is at alausa,lekki,v.i, when will that of mushin,ajegunle,aggege and oshodi be added?[/b]

SwiBRA:

what ll the maintance be like

I hope lagos will change from the rest,"build and be able to maintain"

hope it is solar powered so the epileptic sickness of power holding does not cripple the good effort of your uncle fash. may such thing extend to other states so nigerians can really become good people, and nigeria great nation in turn. goodluck everyone.

hope it is solar powered like saraki's so the epileptic sickness of power holding does not cripple the good effort of your uncle fash. may such thing extend to other states so nigerians can really become good people, and nigeria great nation in turn. goodluck everyone.

cctv is a welcome idea, thumbs up to our governor, oko o ni baje,

eko oni baje!!!

THIS IS ANOTHER ENCOURAGING ACHIEVEMENT BY THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT, but my question is who has the power to reveal the identity of the criminals caught up in the eyes of the cameras? In the past we have had incidences of political assasinations among others in lagos state, hope the ICT men behind the cameras can show to the public images from the cameras in any such circumstance WITH NO HOLDING BACK.

May the cameras not be shut because there is one HOT NEWS in the mouth of one of them. May it not be only for car snatchers or Handset thieves or the pick pocketers at Bus stops. May it be another 'god' eyes watching over all lagosians never to sleep nor slumbber.

You can now go to sleep with two eyes closed oh! lagosian for there are eyes watching over the city while you sleep!

I think their priorities are wrong. Any educated criminal will easily circumvent the cameras.

Well, its good. lets hope that fashola is raising someone like him to be the next governor.
And also his second term is definately sure, he has done so much for lagos. Eko o ni baje o!!!!

i hope they're solar powered o? because if they depend on nepa, they will fail o!

How will they catch those using the BRT lane illegally? Are all cars properly registered so they can send a fine or the police to the owner's home? A good deterrent for robbery and other crimes though.

However, would be nice to read that the government is building homes/shelters for the homeless and there are no beggars on the streets etc because they have been taken care of by the government.

Eko for show, Re-branding without advertisement. Thumbs up for BRF

eko oni baje

You sure have a point, aderoy. Keep it up.

Hope they maintain it. Thumps up to LSG.
Valid points Aderoy.

For the first time in my adult life i m proud to be a Lagosian.

lets us forget that Nigeria has no reliable database to track any of the offenders. How do you place names and addresses to the faces you see.

plus we have a enforcement agencies that are disabled, sick and retarded.

Tha_dude:

For the first time in my adult life i m proud to be a Lagosian.

Go, Michele Obama!