On Monday, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said it responded to at least 1,367 incidents between January and October.

LASEMA announced this in a statement by its spokesman, Nosa Okunbor.

A breakdown of the figure showed that the agency responded to 141 incidents in January and 156 in February.

”In March we responded to 148, while in April, it was 132, May was 147, June 126, July 123, August 121, September 126 and October 147. This totalled 1,367 incidents attended so far by the agency this year and a grand total of 7,809 attended to by LASEMA from June 1, 2019, to date,” the agency said.

He noted that road crashes ranked highest, with a record of 50 vehicular incidents.

“This was followed by 43 incidents in the truck and tanker category comprising 35 accidents, eight broken down trucks, and then 20 medical incidents in third place.

“Also, we responded to 17 fire disasters, which consisted of 16 fire outbreaks and one burnt vehicle and BRT incident, among others,” stated LASEMA.

LASEMA also mentioned that its Local Government Emergency Trends revealed that Alimosho LG ranked highest with recorded incidents in October.

“Of the 20 local government areas in the state, Alimosho ranked highest with 29 out of the 147 incidents recorded during this period. This was followed by Oshodi-Isolo with 20 recorded incidents, closely followed by Ikeja with 18 recorded incidents and Kosofe with 14 recorded incidents.

“Eti-Osa had 12 incidents, Lagos Island recorded 10, Epe eight  incidents, while  Apapa and Mainland recorded six each,” the agency said.

It added that Agege and Surulere recorded five incidents each, while Ojo and Mushin recorded three incidents each.

LASEMA said, “Shomolu and outside Lagos boundary interventions both recorded two incidents each, while Amuwo-Odofin, Ibeju-Lekki, Ikorodu and Ifao-Ijaiye recorded an incident each, respectively.

”There was, however, no incident recorded in the Ajeromi-Ifelodun and Badagry local government areas.” 

(NAN)