Disturbed by incessant attack by criminaly minded people on Lagos Island, a member of the House of Representatives, constituency 1, Dr Enitan Dolapo Badru has purchased and installed Solar powered streetlights with CCTV cameras to address insecurity in the areas.

It was reliably gathered that Hon Badru who felt worried about the reports of some miscreants, attacking innocent people by snatching their belongings and disappeared as a result of epileptic power supply on the Island decided on the project so as to identify the perpetrators and brought them to book.

Authoritative source revealed that Hon Badru aimed to bring back the old glory on the Island in the 60 and 70 where someone can move freely from Olowogbowo to Isale-Eko to Obadina, Itafaji to Freeman without any harrashment or attack as a result of street lights installed by then.

According to the source, the era of street fighting by some areaboys from one to attack another who vandalise property and escape into thin air will be drastically reduce as residents in the attack area can easily identify the perpetrators and get arrested by the Police.

Some of the boys used darkness to perpetrate their nefarious acts and excape but with lights everywhere, it won’t be easy again to do such because residents in the area can easily identify them”, he hinted.

He stressed further, “Lagos Island is used to be a peaceful area where people gathered in their respective base to relax after daily job but now, the miscreants have taken over. Even by 8pm, you will be panicking if you are not at home, because you will not know what is happening or what will happen to you when you get home”.

The source however commended Hon Badru for his foresight on the security matter and others like distribution of Noodles to over 1000 members of his Constituency for Ramadan.