The Lagos State Government has cancelled the November
environmental sanitation exercise tomorrow (Saturday) in the state.
State Commissioner for Environment, Tunji Bello, who
disclosed this in his office, said this is to enable residents fully
participate in the ongoing collection of Permanent Voter Card (PVC) and
registration exercise in nine local government areas of the state.
He explained that the decision to cancel the exercise was to
assist officials of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) in their
logistics, as they would be required to move men and materials to different
parts of the state.
“This cancellation is also to allow Lagos residents, who
have either not collected their Permanent Voter Cards to do so, as well as
allow those who have not registered to do likewise.
“You may recall that His Excellency, Mr. Babatunde Fashola,
SAN, raised an alarm that there were wide discrepancies in the number of
figures claimed to have been registered in Lagos against the last registration
exercise. INEC eventually set aside November 28th -30th.
“You will also recall that a lot of Lagos residents’ names
were either missing, some could not locate collection centres or have changed
their residence.”
To this end, he said government has, therefore, lifted the
restriction of movement order, in order to allow free movement of people to
their various registration and collection centres.
He urged law enforcement agencies, including Nigerian
Police, Civil Defence Corps and officials from KAI, LAWMA and LASTMA to allow
access for all Lagosians in order to fully participate in the Registration and
Collection of Voters Permanent Cards in Lagos State.
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