The Ogun State Government under the leadership of Prince Dapo Abiodun has been charged to constitute a crowd control and management task force comprising senior public officials in the state.
The Minority Leader of the Ogun State House of Assembly Hon. Lukman Olalekan Adeleye, gave this advice while speaking under matters of public urgent importance, at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
Hon Adeleye in his motion prayed that the State Government should constitute a Taskforce comprising senior public officials from the Ministries of Women Affairs and Social Development, Special Duties, Culture and Tourism, as well as Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, to oversee the effective implementation of the House Resolution on crowd control and management.
He sought the need to prevent the incident of poor crowd control that led to the recent ugly incident, that claimed lives of innocent children and others in Ibadan, Anambra and Abuja.
The PDP legislator said as the representatives of the people, the Assembly has a duty to put together a regulation meant to prevent stampede.
He also called on relevant agencies, including Ministries of Culture and Tourism, Environment as well as Local Government Councils, among others to put measures in place to avert any form of stampede, while urging inter-agency collaboration to set up a task force that would be in charge of any event requiring crowd control and permit for effective management of crowd in the State.
Reacting to the motion, the Speaker of the Assembly called on relevant agencies and stakeholders in charge of palliative and other public-spirited individuals interested in giving back to the people, to always take preventive measures in controlling crowd associated with such gestures to avert the recent stampede incidents that occurred in Oyo, Anambra and Abuja.
