His Excellence Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State, at a briefing on Sunday said that Lagos State will soon be reopened for businesses and other endeavours. His Excellence stated that businesses will be able to operate as soon as they meet certain condition, pending when those conditions are met, “the status quo will remain.” he said.
- Register-to-Open must be filled
- Inspection of business facilities
- Visitation to religious centres to determine compliance
- Hospitality, Events, Entertainment, Malls to re-register
- LASEPA and LSSC to communicate with all businesses
- Banks to give the elderly preference between 9am and 10:30am
Governor Sanwo-Olu spoke at the Government House in Marina during an update on the state of affairs with the management of COVID-19.
“We are at a level where we are reviewing the other arms of the economy. In the coming days, we will be starting what we call Register-to-Open, which means all players in the restaurant business, event centres, entertainment, malls and cinemas, will go through a form of re-registration and space management.
“There is a regulation that will be introduced to supervise this move. We will be coming to their facilities to assess their level of readiness for a future opening. I don’t know when that opening will happen in the weeks ahead, but we want these businesses to begin to tune themselves to the reality of COVID-19 with respect to how their work spaces need to look like.
“For us, it is not to say they should re-open fully tomorrow or any time; there has been a process guiding the re-opening.
“We will be mandating LASEPA and safety commission to begin the enumeration process and the agencies will be communicating with all relevant businesses and houses in the days ahead. I must, however, caution that this should not be misinterpreted as a licence for full opening; it is certainly not. The state’s economy is not ready for that now,” the governor said,