From left: DEGBOLA LEWIS ADMIN DIRECTOR LAGOS STATE SECURITY TRUST FUND,DR. ABDURRAZAQ BALOGUN EXECUTIVE SECRETARY/CEO LAGOS STATE SECURITY TRUST FUND, ADAOBI NWANKWO EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT LAGOS STATE SECURITY TRUST FUND.
The Lagos State Security Trust Fund, LSSTF, has advocated placing conversations around security funding in the front burner with the engagement of every stakeholders including citizens, business owners, corporate bodies and the government.
Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of LSSTF, Dr. Abdulrq Balogun made this call at press conference ahead the seventeenth Annual Town Hall Meeting on Security with the theme: SECURITY COMPLEXITIES AND CONVERGENCE: THE LAGOS IMPERATIVES.
Dr.Balogun, who said there is need for all stakeholders to take a decisive stance towards security funding, noted that government institutions can not do it alone, hence the need for conversations on the way forward for the provision of enough resources.
On the forth coming Annual Town Hall Meeting on Security, which is scheduled for the 12th of December 2023 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island at 11am, the LSSTF Boss said the event is an avenue for the Agency to render its stewardship to Lagosians, while the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command will also give a report on the activities, challenges and achievements of the Command in the year under review.
According to him, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu who is the host, will be reeling out his administration’s policies and security initiatives and answer questions from guests as it relates to security.
Also speaking, Executive Assistant, LSSTF, Adaobi Nwankwo noted that apart from direct donation on the Agency’s website, stakeholders can support the Fund, by providing useful Intel to security agencies and undertaking renovation of infrastructural security projects among others.
Nwankwo, who said the event is strictly by invitation, noted that the general public can join the conversation live on the Agency’s social media platforms on Instagram and X ( formally Twitter) on followlsstf and also on the Lagos State Instagram handle on lagosstategovt with the hashtag #17thtownhallmeeting.
On his part, Admin Director of LSSTF, Degbola Lewis described the theme of the Town Hall Meeting: SECURITY COMPLEXITIES AND CONVERGENCE: THE LAGOS STATE IMPERATIVES as apt being that
like most other populous cities, Lagos is equally faced with security challenges such as armed robbery, kidnapping, public disorder, street crime and extortion, highway robberies, piracy among others that have become even more complex since the emergence of technologies and Artificial intelligence.
Blacktalker report that this year, the Fund seeks to focus on the Complexities and Security Convergence and how it can build on capacity and come up with strategies to mitigate security challenges particularly in Lagos State.
The seventeenth Lagos State Security Trust Fund Annual Town Hall Meeting on Security will have in attendance representations from every sector of the economy and civil society in the state, including security chiefs, heads of safety and security agencies as well as security professionals.