Lagos—General Manager of the Lagos State Resident Registration Agency, LASRRA, Ms. Olayinka Fashola, yesterday lamented the low turn-out of Lagosians for the residents registration exercise, saying “of the over 20 million residents of the state, only three million have been captured since the exercise started two years ago.”

Meantime, Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr. Adebiyi Mabadeje said the government has installed Information Technology Centres, ICT in 100 police stations across the state, aimed at addressing delay in state’s justice system.

They spoke at the annual ministerial press briefing held in Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, which also had in attendance the Special Adviser to the Governor on Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Raji.

Fashola noted, “Many residents of the state were so busy that we had to sometimes visit them in their offices to register them.”

Explaining the importance of the information gathered, she said “from the information we gathered from the registration, we discovered that more Lagosians board the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT buses than those who drive their cars.”

Fashola added that through it, “we discovered that a greater percentage of Lagos resident now travel by water than what it used to be few years ago.”

The agency was established two years ago to provide accurate data of the residents in the state.

The general manager however dispelled allegation of mass retrenchment in the registration agency.

Earlier, Mabadeje said the state government has paid N30.3 million as compensation to communities at  Gayingbo for the five hectares of land it secured for the proposed forensic laboratory.