 Hello, this is the Greater Lagos Vision and I'm your host, Love Ikuku Oyedokun. In fulfillment of his promise, Lagos State Governor Baba Jidesawa will look commissioned a state-of-the-art mini stadium and a computerized youth center in Ikorodu area of the state. The youth center project is aimed at providing or producing a conducive environment for sporting and vocational needs of youths in Ikorodu. According to the Governor, it is also to address the growing social biases among young people. The Governor hinted about more youth centers at various stages of completion across the state, including Badagri, Orilla Gege, Isheri, Ekbe, and Ikeja. This is the Greater Lagos Vision. Welcome once again. This episode features Lagos set to commence construction work on Badagri Deep seaport engine this year. Lagos pays compensation to residents affected by the construction of Ikbobo Road. These are many more when we return. The Lagos State Governor Baba Jidesawa says the construction of the Badagri Deep seaport is set to commence engine as soon as the state is granted ratification by the federal government. The Governor stated this during a stakeholder's meeting and community engagement on Badagri Deep seaport project held in Topu, Badagri. It is the community engagement of the people of Badagri with Governor Baba Jidesawa Lu. The reasons are not far-fetched. It is to deliberate on the delayed takeoff of the Badagri seaports. The idea of the Badagri seaport was bettered 10 years ago by the former Governor of Lagos State, now the Minister of Works and Infrastructure, Raji Fashola. After a decade of delay, the project is about to see the light of day. Governor Baba Jidesawa Lu strongly believes that the project, when fully operational, will not only boost the fortunes of the people of Badagri but also transform the entire economy of Lagos State and that of the entire West African sub-region. The Badagri Deep seaport project is not just one project. This is a multi-level opportunity for progress for all of the people in this part of our great state and the volume of the trade and content of investment opportunities that are to spring up in this area when this project commences and when it is completed and when it becomes operational. Very importantly, employment and capacity building for the teaming youth and the women in this great community will remain a priority for this project. He assures the people of his administration's determination to push development to the Badagri axis of Lagos State. Residents who lost their homes and lands to the construction will not be overlooked. We know for certain that the project of this nature and magnitude will require a lot of sacrifice on the part of the people and the affected community. I wish to assure you that we are ready and willing to adequately compensate you for your economic losses and to replace all of your lost assets. Ensuring a smooth and cordial relationship between investors, Badagri Deep seaport limited, and members of the host communities is the next focus for the government. For their cooperation with the promoters of Deep seaport projects and for a line piece to reign in the various communities. Undoubtedly, the ultimate winners of this gigantic project and the host community is themselves. The Deep seaport is to be located in Guerefu area of Badagri, Lagos State. It covers an area of approximately 1103 hectares out of which 623 is dedicated to port activities. Over 500 million narrow have been paid as compensation to residents and families whose property were affected in the construction of Bola Akme Chinubu Igbobo Road in Ikorodu local government area of Lagos State. Governor Babaji de Sawulu handed over the checks worth 5 million to 20 beneficiaries when he paid a working visit to the area. A huge crowd waiting to welcome Governor Sawulu and his entourage to the venue. Soon the atmosphere became electrified as the governor arrives. Sawulu used the working visit to interact with the people and further reaffirmed his commitment towards making more of government presence felt in the area. I was at Udo Gion, the industrial estate to commission and to hand over the big Kimberley Clark factory and on that road we saw that we needed to fix that Udo Gion road that burst out onto the express and we're ready to do it. He also used the opportunity to commission the Ikoroduyu center with the hope that this would reduce social biases and take the use of the streets. Everything we're about is about ensuring that we can take our citizens out of the poverty line, we can produce and engage our youth who can create for them job opportunities. Chairman of the Ikoroduyu local government was still additional on behalf of the people thanked Governor Sawulu for embarking on developmental projects in the division. I have no doubt stating that your administration has transformed Lagos into economic hope of Nigeria. On the realization of dividend of democracy your leadership has brought immense progress not only to Ikoroduyu but to Lagos state at large. He told the governor that they are working with stakeholders, security agencies and state agencies on the security architecture of Ikoroduyu division to boost the governor's efforts at attaining a crime-free state. The wife of the legal state governor Dr Ibiduke Sawulu has decried the rejection of the gender bills by the House of Representatives. She described it as a discrimination against Nigerian women. She spoke during a one million women march against gender discrimination. She called on the National Assembly to promptly reconsider the bills and approve them. This rally saw the women from different walks of life marching from Lagos state Secretariat to the House of Assembly in Alausa, Ikeja. It was put together as part of activities to commemorate the 2022 International Women's Day. The fame was break the bias, gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow. The once immediate passage of all gender bills in the House. Dr Ibiduke Sawulu maintained that it can be no development without the full and equal participation of women in all spheres. For men, including the speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Modashiru Obasa, were in consonance with the women in Yakuza. Dr Sawulu also spoke on the death of Ms Uluwaba Mishie who went missing after boarding her B.R.T. bus and was later found dead. She described the development as sad, shocking and devastating. The Lagos State Government is set to launch a new resident identification card with improved features according to the General Manager of Lagos State Residents Registration Agency, LASTRA, Dr Ibilola Kasumu. The new card will allow users board a ride, make purchases, apply for loans among others. I had a one-on-one interview with the General Manager of LASTRA, Dr Ibilola Kasumu for more insights. This is the Greater Lagos Vision and what made today on this episode is the General Manager of Lagos State Residents Registration Agency, LASTRA, Engineer Ibilola Kasumu. Thank you so much for being with us on the program today. Good to be here. Thank you very much for having me. Let's take off with the new resident identification card. Why do you think I should come forward to have it done? What is the need for it? Thank you very much. So the new Lagos State Residents ID card is going to be a smart card and what it does is it uniquely identifies every resident of the state and why we're doing this in Lagos State is so that we can plan adequately. So we take your demographic data, that's taking all your bio data, your name, gender, and just identify you and give you a unique identification and then with that become plan resources, how we deploy infrastructure in different areas of the state. So that's basically what it is. Then also it's not just about planning. Social benefits, welfare benefits, packages that we want to offer the state discounts for certain identified residents. This will be easier done if we can identify you with this unique identification number. So that's really what this is all about. Like those of us who have had it done in the past, like I have done it, what do I need to do? How do I key into this new process? So by simply visiting a website which is www.lagosresidents.gov.ng, it's very clear there's a validation portal where you can go to and once you click on the validation portal, there's a guideline on how you can update your records. So what we want is for proof of life, we need to know that you're still in existence. Number two, you need to update your records because certain information may have changed about you. You may have been single when you registered and now you're married. You need to let us know that and update the records. Your address may have changed. So many information about you may have changed which you need to update before we go ahead to print the new cards. So that the portal is self-explanatory, how you need to go about it. Even if you don't have your current number, that there's a way which you can retrieve your number in order to update your records. But the most important thing is that you must have the original phone number which you registered with because there will be a one-time password and OTP sends to that number. This is just to validate and confirm that you are still the holder of that number and you own the information you want to change. So what happened if for instance I used a particular number then to register and I no longer use that number, it's been reallocated to another person. So how do I go about it? You won't be able to do that on the portal, you will need to visit the head office or any of our offices in order for you to do that. Because the reason why you need to do that is because we need to validate and verify your identity and the only way we can verify your identity that you are the owner of the information you want to update is by taking your biometrics at that time. So you would use your fingerprint to validate your identity, then you would now provide us with the new information which we would update ourselves. Tell us about some of the unique features that this new card possess. So the new card is a smart card. It's a smart identity card. It's not just a plastic identity card. So what we mean by that is the smart identity card has a chip on it. So it has 28 applets. The first applet which is like combining when I say an applet, you're combining 28 cards into one. You're compressing it into one card. Now it has 28 different features and use cases that can be put on the card. So the first use case is a payment card. So it comes with an EMV payment module which is a bank account and all. So it can be used like for a payment. You mean you can take it out and use it like an AMR ATM card or a POS point to make payments. Yes, card. Yes. Because it comes with a bank account. So we're working with the financial institutions as well. So each card comes with a bank account which has payment capabilities. So you can withdraw at any ATM of any bank, use it on the web as well to make purchases on the web. That's one. Then the second applet is an ID applet where we've stored your basic information that that will confirm and it would probably deter people from trying to duplicate the card because the information written on the card must match what is on the chip as well. So you have certain information there and then for emergency purposes as well we have your next of kin as well on the chip so that for medical issues or any security issues somebody you know they can get to that information once they have that ability. And then the third applet that is configured right now is a transport applet. So the same way the new carry card that Lagos State is using now on our public transport system, the same card will be acceptable. So the Lagos State resident card will be acceptable on the transport system so on the BRT buses on the Lagos ferry and then when the rail starts as well the card will be acceptable. I mean and it's also it also eases your access to government services. So right now we're speaking with other government agencies like the Lagos State health insurance scheme as well that would have an applet on board. The pensioners would have their unique identification as well so it helps the government to identify people that deserve or require certain benefits so if you are identified as a vulnerable person living in Lagos and there are certain benefits that should come to you it's easy because we already have your identification number it's unique and it's yours till death and all. So that helps us to plan it helps us to find out the demographics of certain areas so we know how many primary health care centers are required in certain areas. We know from the demographic data that we get we will know how many infants were born in that area and do we have adequate provision for primary health care for primary schools for secondary schools you know certain infrastructure and social benefits welfare manual packages these things are easily deployable when we know the demographics of a certain location. Right you projected that not less than six million residents would have been enrolled or gotten this new registration card by the end of 2022. Tell us what are the measures you have in place or how do you attempt achieving this. Okay so currently in the database now we have over four million records out of the four million records one point about just over one million are already validated as in they're ready to go to print as we speak then we have about just over three million that are subject to validation so these are people that have registered in the past that we expect them to go to the portal just for proof of life so that we don't just print cards that will never be collected. Then we're aggressively also registering residents right now so we have offices or we have presence in each of the local governments and lcdas so that people can go in there to go and register and then we're also engaging independent partners where they are enrollment partners with lasra and they go into the communities to register as well so this with advocacy we expect that Nigerians would come out to come and register and we build the database from there so that's the plan. It looks a bit low. Yes so we we just started advocacy program where we've um we're going to embark on stakeholders involvement of our stakeholders meetings in all the five divisions of Lagos state so right now we're going around engaging the community leaders and people in the local government chairman and all so that they bind to this before we now proceed with the stakeholders engagement and then the official lunch and once the official lunch takes off that kicks off the main advocacy program but this is ongoing and this is part of it what we're doing here now. Correct me if I'm wrong but I know I'm not totally wrong here but correct me if I am. Approval for this was given sometime in 2019 to be specific in December. Why is it just taking off now? So the approval process I mean commenced really or was given December 2019 so implementation really started or when we started executing planning strategizing and all in January um so what looks like a delay was actually development developmental progress where this is the first of its kind that has ever been done and there's quite a lot of development work that goes into it where you're creating your kind of condensing 28 cards into one so that this becomes your one card that you need to function in Lagos state so it's not it's not planned or it wasn't planned as such but a lot of development has been going on in the background and we just wanted to get it right and then also because of the interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic that that created a little bit of a delay in enrollment but it didn't stop the strategic planning and development because you know you actually need interaction with the citizens where they need to come to physically touch things and the proximity can't be the distance when they're enrolling so we had to halt enrollment for a little while but it didn't stop progress ongoing the the progressive um development. Now let's try to just suppose it's you know side by side with a vision of Mr. Governor which you and I were we are aware of the Greater Lagos or Vision making Lagos a smart city and also the film's agenda how does this you know impact on that vision? So this helps because every citizen or every resident of the state is uniquely identified when you're uniquely identifiable it makes it easier for us to deploy certain benefits and to plan accordingly also I mean we're trying to make it as easy as possible for people to reside in Lagos so if it's the same card that I require to get on a bus same card I require to get on a ferry same card is required to get on the train when they do start same card is required at the health facility that I'm going to seek treatment same card is required when I attend certain schools um public schools in Lagos state then it just makes it easy you don't need to keep on going back and forth to enroll and be issued a different card so that's part of it making Lagos a smart city. Enrollment is free. Enrollment is totally free but residents are expected just like when you collect your ATM cards from banks because it comes with a bank account you're expected to activate the card with the 1000 Naira that 1000 Naira goes on the card as credits so it goes in your bank account as credit to you it's money it's your money to be spent but 1000 Naira is required to activate the card that's all we have for you in this episode of the Greater Lagos Vision on Plus TV Africa I'm Lovie Kuku Uyeduku bye for now