By Omolara Adasofunjo
Ogun State House of Assembly has called on relevant agencies and stakeholders in charge of palliative and other public spirited individuals interested in giving back to the people to always take preventive measures in controlling crowd to avert the recent stampede incidents that occurred in Oyo and Anambra States as well as Abuja.
The Speaker, Mr Oludaisi Elemide, gave the charge while responding to the presentation of the Minority Leader, Mr Lukman Adeleye, who spoke during a plenary at the Assembly, Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
Elemide, who commiserated with the families of victims of the recent stampede, including the organisers of the events, who had taken it upon themselves to give back to the people in need, also assured that the Assembly would soon put together a legislation that would streamline events that required crowd to prevent such occurrence in the State.
Earlier in his submission, Mr Adeleye had stressed the need to prevent the incident of poor crowd control that led to the recent ugly incident that claimed the lives of innocent children and others in Ibadan, Anambra and Abuja
He said that as the representatives of the people, the Assembly has a duty to put together a regulation meant to prevent stampede.
He also called on the relevant agencies including Ministries of Culture and Tourism as well as Environment and the Local Government Councils to put measures in place to avert any form of stampede.
The lawmaker urged inter-agency collaboration to set up a task force that would be in charge of any event requiring crowd control and permit for effective management of crowd in the State.
