Lagos State Government has revealed that 8,663 building owners/developers were detected of infractions in the last one year.
The Special Adviser, e-GIS and Urban Development, Dr Olajide Babatunde, disclosed this, on Monday, at the ongoing ministerial press briefing to mark the second year and second term of Governor Babajide sanwo-Olu administration.
He added that 2,232 stage inspection was carried out by the agency on buildings under construction for compliance and conformity checks by the Inspectorate and quality control department of the agency, while 215 certificate of completion and fitness for habitation were issued to building owners/developers after stage by stage inspections, processed by LASBCA through its Building Certification Department (BCD).
Babatunde also said that 159 buildings were identified with verified building insurance policy by the agency insurance department, adding that in the last one year 3,610 enforcement activities were carried out by the enforcement unit of LASBCA.
The special adviser added tha, the state government would soon go on enforcement move to ensure houses without certificate of completion, fitness and habitation in the state will be seal up.
He explained that 349 distress properties were brought down in the year 2023, while the state government took over 39 properties that collapsed from 2023 till date.
Babatunde said the taking over of such property is for a while just to serve as punishment to owners of such property.
He, however, announced major progress in modernising land administration and Urban Development through its Enterprise Geographic Information Service (e-GIS), a project led by the Lagos Geographic Information Service (LAGIS).
The Special Adviser said that the strategic initiative, designed to revolutionise land administration, urban planning, and geospatial data management across the State, was transforming how land records, planning data, and geospatial information were collected, processed, and used across the State.
He said that since the inception of the project in 2016, and the formal establishment of the Lagos e-GIS Office in 2021, the initiative had consistently delivered on its core mandate of building a comprehensive, computerised spatial data infrastructure to support a greater, smarter Lagos.
He said that the strategic goal of the e-GIS Office was automating and integrating digitization efforts across key agencies such as the Lands Bureau, Physical Planning, Land Use Charge, and Office of the State Surveyor-General, and coordinating a state-wide mapping and survey project in collaboration with the Surveyor-General’s office, while establishing Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and deploying UAV drones, RTK systems, and cadastral software for precise land mapping and data collection.
He added that the Office was also responsible for driving capacity building in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Lagos State Civil Service personnel, and providing consultancy and integration support for Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), leveraging GIS technologies.
Babatunde said that to bring services closer to citizens, the government opened its first regional e-GIS outlet in Ikeja, with more centres planned across the five IBILE divisions while other achievements include the development of a central data portal, creation of GIS units in MDAs, launch of a drone service, and rollout of tools like Capture Lagos software and the Merlin billing platform.
He averred that there were other new innovations to support sectors beyond land administration, including the deployment of the Med2U healthcare mapping app, the smart house numbering system pilot, and building of a situation room for LASIEC as well as the introduction of the LAGPPAD Web Portal for building approvals.
