 He is a part of measures to curb unregulated development, manage setbacks and open spaces as well as improve beautification of the environment. The legacy through the Minister of Physical Planning and Urban Development has signed a memorandum of understanding MOU with E-Transact, a former fintech company. Speaking during the signing of the MOU held at the State Secretary in Al-Awasa Ikeja, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development Engineer Omar Tayo, Bambooshe Martins, represented by Special Advisor to Governor of Ajide Songolu on E-GIS and Planning Matters, Dr. Al-Ajide Babatundi, said the initiative was a public-private partnership for accountability and in the interest of the general public as well as improve the IGR of Lagos State. The journey of 1,000 miles only starts with one step and you know it's always important to take that step or baby steps so that we get it right. So initially this is something that we thought you know I mean government can do alone but I mean eventually we realize that a true public-private partnership you know things like this are possible. And also for accountability you know the public should also be part of what we do because a lot of times the public or the private sector you know criticizes us and think that I mean things that are being done within government you know is not usually towards revenue generation or maybe in the interest of the of the general public. We are finally woken up and just like it is important that without planning you really cannot achieve much. Every single thing has to be planned for. There's nothing you do if you don't plan for it we are just banned for failure. So this open space we are talking about we've overlooked it for so long and I'm sure you're all witnesses to the kind of things that happen in these open spaces from markets, organizers, traders, some of them even end up spilling over to the roads. Well it's time to take the bull by the hand and we're tired to approach this properly and legally. The managing director of E-Transat, Nii Yi Tolua Lopue on his part said the organization is partnering with Lagos State government for social development. He also added that the project would develop solutions on data, enumeration, reordering setbacks, putting incidental open spaces in an orderly manner among other benefits. Similarly the general manager of Las Pema, TPL daisy Osso said the agency was settled with addressing challenges associated with managing and regulating all activities on setbacks to ensure orderliness while leveraging technology. If you look around Lagos you have various setbacks where different things are happening. So the government is taking that initiative now to ensure that they identify those setbacks, they enumerate people on those setbacks, they do the necessary data capture and manage the entire setback arena in the state so that it's structured, it follows the proper model for setbacks, improves beautification, improves transparency within the environment and just ensures that things are well laid out in the proper order and manner that will make Lagos function as the major, major critical landmark state which will be of global recognition across the world. That is the significance and importance of this. Also it's a revenue model What we have today is not something we can be proud of, our setbacks are in disorderly manner, they are not contributing to anything aesthetic to Lagos state and of course a lot of other things are also associated with the way the setbacks are today, the activities they are constituting what are called traffic congestion, the insecurity in all these places and of course the other environmental issues around the way we are using all these places today. So this MOU is going to kick start reordering of the misuse and abuse of our setbacks and incidental open spaces as we have it. Hello, hope you enjoyed the 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.