Daily Independent Online.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004.
Apapa council, residents collaborate to tackle communal
problems
By Victor Ebimomi
Reporter, Lagos
Apapa Local Government and Apapa GRA Residents
Association (AGRA) have agreed to
form an eight-man committee that would meet monthly to address communal
problems confronting the area.
The decision was arrived at after a meeting between
the local government and the Central Working Committee (CWC) of the association
recently.
When the initiative kicks-off, according to the AGRA
General Manager, Mr. Mike Egbayelo, it would focus on issues of serious concern
to the residents such as traffic, environmental, security among others.
Meanwhile some notable companies resident in Apapa
GRA have recently joined the association. The move is in recognition of the
association’s “superb security coverage” of the area and its
sense of community consciousness, Egbayelo said.
The companies, according to him, are UAC training
centre, SDV and the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC).
With the development the companies’ names have
now been included in the list of those whose property would now be placed under
the constant surveillance and of the AGRA security network.
The General Manager explained that henceforth the
daily police night patrol and the display of AGRA stickers at the gates, which
are deterrents to robbers or burglars, have been extended to the companies as
part of the dividends of belonging to the association.
While commending the action of the companies, he
advised others who are resident in the GRA to toe the line of those that have
registered so that their property and staff residents could be properly
secured.
