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| Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu |
One week after the
partial easing of the lockdown on the state, Lagos state government is
considering reopening the state to full business activities.
The state Governor, Mr.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Sunday said that the government was considering full
re-opening of the critical sectors of its economy, even though the move will
not be pushed in a hurry.
According to him, in
the coming days, the government would be rolling out Register-to-Open
initiative as part of the plans that would enable it assess the level of
readiness of the players in the identified sectors for supervised operations.
The governor spoke at a briefing after the State’s Security
Council meeting held at the State House in Marina.
Sanwo-Olu said
officials from the Lagos State Safety Commission (LSSC) and Lagos State
Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) will be visiting restaurants,
companies, religious houses to assess their level of readiness.
With the size of the
State’s economy and numbers of businesses that operate in its domain, the
governor said government could not afford to keep people and businesses on
lockdown permanently.
He said: “We are at a
level where we are reviewing the other arms of the economy. In the coming days,
we will be starting what we call Register-to-Open, which means all players in
the restaurant business, event centres, entertaiment, malls and cinemas will go
through a form of re-registration and space management.
“There is a regulation
that will be introduced to supervise this move. We will be coming to their
facilities to assess their level of readiness for a future opening. I don’t
know when that opening will happen in the weeks ahead, but we want these
businesses to begin to tune themselves to the reality of COVID-19 with respect
to how their work spaces need to look like.
“For us, it is not to
say they should re-open fully tomorrow or any time; there has been a process
guiding the re-opening. We will be mandating LASEPA and Safety Commission to
begin the enumeration process and the agencies will be communicating with all
relevant businesses and houses in the days ahead. I must, however, caution that
this should not be misinterpreted as a licence for full opening; it is
certainly not. The State’s economy is not ready for that now.”
Sanwo-Olu said the
Government agencies also would be visiting places of worship to evaluate their
level of preparedness ahead of full reopening. He stressed that social
distancing and hygiene would be fully considered in determining whether mosques
and churches can re-open in the future.
“We are reviewing and
considering how the phased unlocking will happen. If we see huge level of
compliance, then it can happen in the next two to three weeks. If not, it could
take a month or two months. It is until we are sure all of these players are
ready to conform to our guidelines,” the governor asserted.
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