Lagos State Government has installed street lighting in about one thousand three hundred kilometre kilometres across the State, with a projection to deliver another eighty-two kilometres by the end of the year.

According to government, since the assumption of office by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, concerted efforts have been made to ensure every nook and cranny of the State is well lit in line with operation ‘Light Up Lagos Project,’ which is an initiative of the present administration.

The Light Up Project, according to Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Olawale Oluwo, is predicated on a tripod of street lighting, rural/community electrification and embedded power programme, saying it was gratifying to note that all the components of the initiative were progressing well.

Giving details, Oluwo said when the administration came on board, they met a total distance area of three hundred and forty-five kilometres street lighting infrastructure, and between May and December twenty-fifteen, they reactivated hitherto moribund street lighting infrastructure in ninety-nine roads.

He said the street lights were taken over by the Lagos State Electricity Board from various Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government, and as at December last year, already one thousand one hundred kilometres have been covered, while as at today a total of one thousand three hundred kilometres have been covered.

Oluwo said at the beginning of twenty-eighteen, government commenced work on another seventy-nine kilometres of street lighting infrastructure, while a total of one hundred and forty-three kilometres of roads across the State were retrofitted from High Pressure Sodium to LED light.

He said it was also instructive to note that the State Government recently entered into a partnership with a firm to construct additional ten thousand LED street lights covering three hundred kilometres across the State.

The deal, Oluwo said, includes the provision of about five hundred direct and indirect jobs and construction of an LED lighting and Hybrid Energy Power Assembly Plant in the State.

He said aside the fact that the provision of street lighting infrastructure had enhanced aesthetics of the State and foster improved night economy, the initiative had also provided jobs to thousands of people as well as ensured safety of lives and property of residents.