Lagos State House of Assembly has ordered the Director-General, Lagos State Safety Commission, Hakeem Dickson, to vacate office until given approval by the House.

The order followed an observation by the Chairman, House Committee on Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Olusola Shokunle, that Dickson was occupying the position without the approval of the House.

Shokunle (PDP-Oshodi/Isolo I) told the House that Dickson had not been given approved at any time by the Assembly.

Supporting Shokunle’s position, Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Petitions, Human Rights and Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, Adefunmilayo Tejuosho, noted that the public was watching activities of the state government.

Also commenting, the House Chief Whip, Rotimi Abiru, and the Chairman of the House Committee on Education, Olanrewaju Ogunyemi, urged the Assembly to request Gov.
Akinwunmi Ambode to send Dickson to the House for screening.

Consequently, Speaker Mudashiru Obasa directed the acting Clerk of the House, Azeez Sanni, to write a letter to the commission, asking Dickson to step aside and stop parading himself as the D-G.

Dickson was appointed into the office after the exit of its former D-G, Fouad Oki.