Ambode swear's in LASIEC commissioners, DG Safety Commission

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday swore-in new Commissioners of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, with a charge to add value to the corporate governance, growth and development of the State.

He also swore-in members of the State’s Public Procurement Agency, Audit Service Commission, Director-General of the State’s Safety Commission and also inaugurated members of the State Science and Innovation Council.


The new appointees are Prof. Gabriel Olatunde Babawale and Dr. Noah Olanrewaju Lawal-Jinadu as Commissioners of LASIEC; Bolaji Miftah Are, Iyabo Elizabeth Ladipo and Ayo Adebusoye for the Public Procurement Agency; Jokotola Ojosipe-Ogundimu for Audit Service Commission; and Hakeem Dickson as the Director General of the Lagos State Safety Commission.

Ambode urged them to see their appointment as an invitation and a privilege to be part of the future prosperity of the State.

Ambode said: “Your appointment is a call to public service and I am very confident that you will justify the trust the government has reposed in your ability and capacity to add value to the corporate governance, growth and development of the State.


“Let me also add that your appointment is an invitation and a privilege to be part of history as we lay a solid foundation for the future of Lagos, a Lagos that our children and their children will enjoy for many years to come.”

Ambode said the appointment of Prof. Babawale and Dr. Lawal-Jinadu to the Board of LASIEC was necessitated by the exit of two members of the Commission who had completed their second tenure, adding that the provision of the law setting up the Commission requires that the Board be constituted by the Chairman and six members.

“With this appointment, therefore, LASIEC is properly constituted to conduct the forthcoming Local Government elections in the State,” the Governor said.

Ambode also commended the Chairman and members of the Commission for their efforts so far to ensure that the July 22 local government elections were free, fair and credible.

For Public Procurement Agency and Audit Service Commission, Ambode said the two agencies were established mainly to ensure transparency and accountability in the procurement process as well as the management and application of public resources.


He charged the new appointees to bring their professionalism to bear to deepen the application of these principles to ensure that the tax-paying public get full value for their money.