Lagos Assembly Announces Standing Committee Chairmen, Probe N24bn Light Up Project

Posted on February 10, 2025

Lagos State House of Assembly has announced the chairmen of its standing committees.

The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mojisola Meranda made the announcement during Monday’s plenary session.

The newly appointed committee chairmen are: Hon. Temitope Adewale (Business and Rules Committee); Hon. Adedamola Richard Kasumu (Legislative Compliance Committee); Hon. Setonji David (Ethics, Protocol and Privileges Committee); Hon. Surajudeen Tijani (House Services Committee) and Hon. Stephen Ogundipe (Information, Strategy and Security Committee).

This announcement comes after the House dissolved its standing committees and set up a selection committee to choose new committee members.

Meanwhile, the assembly has constituted a six-member committee panel to investigate the N24 billion Light Up project implemented by the state government.

The project, which is an initiative of the Lagos ministry of energy and mineral resources, was designed to ensure availability of reliable energy for all residents.

In a plenary on Monday, Speaker Meranda, named a six-member committee to include: Hon. Abiodun Tobun, Hon. Desmond Elliot, Hon. Stephen Ogundipe, Hon. Abiodun Orekoya, Hon. Femi Saheed and Hon. Sabur Oluwa.

The Speaker said collective efforts are necessary to illuminate Lagos, emphasising the project’s significance, with a report expected within two weeks.

She added that the discussion aimed to provide residents with street lighting, enhancing safety and safeguarding lives and property across the state.

“This is the only way to reduce the problem of insecurity; when everywhere is very dark, you need to know who is approaching you so as to find out if the person intends to attack you; that is what the project intends to achieve,” Meranda said.

“It is also important at this point to sensitise the local government chairmen that any road contract given out, street lights should be part of it. They should go together and not to start cutting cost, thereby making government to start breaking anything again after constructing the roads.

“If we can produce transformers through Minister of Power, street lights and solar street lights should be the least of the things we can do. So I think all hands must be on deck in order to light up Lagos. Production of street lights is something very important and I think we should start looking towards that direction in order to get that fixed.”

She asked state and LGAs to improve their maintenance culture, while imploring citizens to protect public property.