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Olojuobinrin:
This is commendable!!
Lagos is moving really fast, this is what you get when you elect people who can deliver , they also tend to surround themselves with people who can give them important advice and help them in delivering their jobs

Bosenan:
Kudos to LASG, hope the reconstruction of the forensic center torched by miscreants during endsars will begin soon as well

Corridon:
Tinubu should lead by example by having a DNA test with the popular Tinubu family in Lagos. We want to check something.

adekolaelect:
Iyamiris will avoid this bcs many of them are the criminals dominated Lagos and other s w states by kidnappings ,dumping kids on the road at least married women will limited Ilegitimate children giving to their Husbands little. You will be served when your time reach.

Lanrelagboi:
https://twitter.com/lshaofficial/status/1570823592711172102?t=uSfaf355nVGl4hQx0ZG2ZA&s=19[/quote]Good development.... Henceforth people should be very careful at crime scene... People should learn to avoid touching victims or objects at crime scene because doing so might lead innocent soul to the prison.... report case to the police and make sure you don't implicate yourself in the process of requiring a victim.

Corridon:
Tinubu should lead by example by having a DNA test with the popular Tinubu family in Lagos. We want to check something.

Corridon:
Tinubu should lead by example by having a DNA test with the popular Tinubu family in Lagos. We want to check something.

Skyfornia:
Most women in Lagos won't be happy.. to see a faithful lady in Lagos is in a ratio of 1 to 1million. Meaning you might only find 1 faithful lady out of 1 million ladies in Lagos.

Corridon:
Tinubu should lead by example by having a DNA test with the popular Tinubu family in Lagos. We want to check something.

Meedot2:
This is good, I think the next thing to do now is to have a DNA database for all Nigerians so as to make profiling and identification of criminals easier through forensic analysis. Nice one Lagos State government.

etrouble:
Lord Lugard caused this nonsense. So many animals in the midst of humans.

MyExpression:
Did we really need a law for this?

Individual operational licence should suffice.

If state government decides to have theirs too, without their passive govt ethics, let them join the competition.

What's the need for this legislation?

Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a bill establishing the Lagos State Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA) and Forensic Centre to support criminal investigations, law enforcement, preservation of evidence for the judicial system and other connected purposes.

The bill, which was passed by the House after it scaled the third reading at plenary, yesterday, with all lawmakers in attendance giving their approval.

A report on the bill had been adopted at an earlier sitting presided over by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. A statement by Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Eromosele Ebhomele, stated that part of the objectives of the centre includes, providing for the use and regulation of DNA based technology in Lagos State to carry out profiling or analysis.

The centre is to also “carry out other forensic disciplines, including toxicology, drug chemistry, fingerprint examination, fire-arms examination, tool mark examination, ballistics, trace evidence analysis, questioned document examination and digital forensics to obtain evidence relevant to the investigation of criminal offences.”

“Provide for the use of DNA profiles in the investigation of crime and the use of such profiles in proving the innocence or guilt of persons.

“Provide for the conditions under which the samples for DNA profiles may be retained or destroyed.

“Establish a DNA database and a DNA Index System in the state as well as establish a DNA bank for storage of reference samples.”

The bill, which gives powers to the centre to take specified bodily samples from certain categories of persons for the purposes of DNA analysis, collect, examine, document and preserve evidence, which can later be used in the identification of offenders, among others, also allows the centre to decode family ties and relationship of individuals to establish identity as well as identification of abandoned or disputed children and other related issues.

The centre is expected to recommend methods for optimum use of DNA techniques and technologies for administration of justice.
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Corridon:
Tinubu should lead by example by having a DNA test with the popular Tinubu family in Lagos. We want to check something.

PeachtreeReside:
As per some of the comments, how long would we have these foolish ones amongst us Lord?

khalleb:
They all come from a particular region

plaindealer:
When parastatals are created, they do so with constitutional backing aka ACT.

It's a statutory government institution with statutory duties and budgets so it must be created legally and enshrined within the state constitution.

This is not a kiosk operation or drive-by operation where without legal and constitutional backing, you expose yourself and your forensic evidence to be challenged and thrown out in courts of law.

MyExpression:
Is licence not govt approved?
Is there no existing medical body that covers forensic practice?

Now with the existence of a government-running infrastructure, they(govt) will claim the upper hand for verifiable results, even when other operators have been using the same process to get their own results.

They are muscling that sector

plaindealer:
There's a difference between a license and constitutionally creating a state parastatal with legal backing, budgetary provisions, rules, regulations, guidelines and so on.

Why must this be explained to you? Is this not elementary enough to digest?