 Say something when you see something Governor Babajie, the son of Lagos, still in Lagos state, the State Government has launched its whistle-blowing initiative to ensure transparency, accountability, stimulating trust, and more investment into Lagos state and above all, to mitigate fraud. This was the submission of the Commissioner for Finance, Rabiu Oluwa speaking at the launch of the state whistle-blowing initiative on Thursday in Alousa, Ikeja. Placifical Respondent Lave Kukwe Dukmo Hasmo. This whistle-blowing initiative, a statewide project, was introduced to provide a platform for employees, stakeholders, and the general public to report violations, misconduct, or unethical behavior across the state. It is meant to encourage reporting of illegal actions or financial crimes through the appropriate channel with a view to correcting non-compliance. The initiative aimed at building a speak-up culture in the public has been piloted by the Lagos State's Internal Revenue Service, LIRS. The state government's decision to pioneer implementation of the scheme in LIRS is in tandem with the agency's continuous drive and drive to ensure that our responsibility to the state is carried out efficiently and effectively. The LIRS boss explained that the facility does not only provide the avenue to report but ensures credibility of reports through investigation, feedback, and protection of such whistle-blowers. The facility is designed to ensure that concerns about wrongdoing or malpractice within the agency can be raised by any stakeholder without fear of victimization, subsequent discrimination, disadvantage, or dismissal. The Commissioner for Finance and that of budget and economic planning, Rabu Uluwu and Sam Egubi, in their separate speeches, highlighted more on the initiative. The next level is for us to take it down to 20 local government areas and the 36 or 37 LCDAs to ensure that there is an end-to-end activity whereby we promote transparency, accountability for the Lagos residents. So this is something that we're going to do and we are very hopeful that it will be accepted. This particular launch is another milestone attempt to open up the state to accountability, to transparency to the citizens of Lagos state to participate in governance. It's our belief that there are improved and increased participation through safe channels like what we are launching today would stimulate trust, would stimulate openness and would stimulate investment from the people of Lagos. The platform is safe for confidentiality and it is independently managed by Dilat, a globally accredited company. The policy was introduced in December 2016 by the federal government as part of initiatives to wage war against corruption. Here are whistleblowing health lines to Dil. Should you see something and want to report? Please dial 0800 847 6337 Again, 0800 847 6337 From Lagos, love Ikuku Uyiduku. Plus TV news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.