 Lagos State Governor Babajideh Songolu says the state remains safe for business operations and laid fears of insecurity. Governor Songolu stated these while responding to fees by business stakeholders during the seventh edition of the Lagos Corporate Assembly, tagged BOS Mids Business held at the State House of Laosa in Ikeja. State House correspondent Love Ikuku Yodokun who covered the event has more in this report. The Lagos Corporate Assembly, tagged BOS Mids Business, 17th series is a forum where the state government and the business community converge to discuss issues of shared concerns. In a skin-to-dress, Governor Songolu says the state government is abreast of the security situation and is taking all actions to guide against any unfortunate happening. One of our primary responsibilities as a government is the security of life and property. I want to assure our businesses that this is one area that we are not shining away from. This is one responsibility that I want to assure you that we are doing everything that we need to do to keep Lagos safe, to keep Lagos secure and to make sure that your businesses and your properties are safe for you. The governor who briefs on the actions the government has taken on demands presented by stakeholders at the last edition of the assembly says the government has made efforts to touch on virtually all the issues raised. Some of the interventions he mentions are the cutting of charges, rates by 75% on water licensing permit given five years' waiver of arrivals on water licensing and permit amongst others. I'm happy to say that we've asked them to reduce the charge on signages to a maximum of one square signage, not more than 10,000 naira, and I'm sure that also has been well implemented. We've also, I mean, over the year, part of our own developmental agenda, you know, we're aware of what we're doing with our metropolitan fibre optics, we've actually done about 2,000 kilometres of fibre optics infrastructure. In her remarks, the state's commissioner for Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Lola Acondiz says the assembly has been able to reinvent and strengthen the relationship between the state government and the organised private sector. At this time, when the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the world, discussions on the establishment of a new type of strategic partnership, more dialogue and exchanges between government and the organised private sector will revitalise businesses in the state. In her submission, the President's Lagos Chamber of Commerce, Toki Mabugunja says the private sector has a central role in the actualisation of the vision of Emego City and making Lagos a 21st century economy. From Lagos, Love Ikuku Oyeduku reporting for PLOS TV, Africa.