By Providence Obuh

Lagos State Government has assured to use Medium Term Sector Strategies (MTSS) to deliver on the Lagos State Development Plan (LSDP) in the medium term, while the impact assessment reporting would be used to review the plan on a regular basis of five years intervals as documented. The LSDP 2012 – 2025 was formally launched and presented to the public by Governor Bababtunde Fashola, on December 2014, to provide overall direction for long term growth and development of the state.

*Gov Fashola

Speaking at a Stakeholders’ Sensitisation on the LSDP 2012 – 2025 in Lagos, Commissioner, Ministry of Economic Planning and budget, Mr. Ben Akabueze, said that the plan will set overarching long term framework for government’s planning and budgeting system, stating: “It is important to note that a plan will however not achieve anything by itself except it is executed.

Therefore the planning teams have developed an implementation programme to identify those actions and responsibilities which will ensure that the plan is implemented and becomes a mechanism for realising the vision for Lagos by the year 2025.”

Akabueze who was represented by Special Adviser to the Governor on Economic Planning and Budget, Mrs. Iyabowale Aluko, said that the preparation of the LSDP began by looking at the main issues and challenges facing the state, drawing upon previous state reports, current statistics, especially those published by the Lagos Bureau of Statistics and other relevant documents/reports made available by Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs), adding “ Our vision for LSDP by 2025 is to become “Africa’s Model Mega-city and Global Economic and Financial Hub that is Safe, Secure, Functional and Productive” by 2025.

According to him, “Lagos as the fastest growing mega-city state is geographically well placed to serve all the major markets of the world.