Sanwo-Olu unveils 10 year infrastructural ambition, says by 2030 Lagos will home to one of the largest Rice Mills in the world

Sanwo-Olu unveils 10 year infrastructural ambition, says by 2030 Lagos will home to one of the largest Rice Mills in the world

The Lagos State government says by 2030, the State will be home to one of the largest Rice Mills in the world.

This will be achieved after the delivery of 32 metric tons per hour rice factory in Imota, which will produce 2.8 million bags of 50kg bags of rice per annum.

Governor Sanwo-Olu disclosed this at the 2021 Ehingbeti Lagos summit on Tuesday.

Sanwo who unveiled the 10 year infrastructural ambition for Lagos State said, by 2030, Lagos will be a Smart City, fully covered by a network of several thousands of kilometers of fibre optic infrastructure that will carry broadband internet into homes, offices and schools

“The Smart City that is unfolding will also be home to a network of intelligent cameras that will support not only security and policing across the State, but also traffic management and data collection for urban planning.”

“We are putting water transportation infrastructure in place to make our waterway transport systems a central element of life in the metropolis and The Fourth Mainland Bridge will come to define the cityscape of the 2020s.”

“By 2030, Lagos will proudly stand beside every other megacity in the world, in terms of its capacity to transport its people”.

He added that there will be a city-wide network of colour-coded Metro Lines, the first two of which – Red and Blue lines – will move over 34.5 million people monthly, cutting travel time by over 250 percent.

The governor however urged residents, visitors and investors to look ahead to the next decade, and the possibilities that lie ahead for Lagos as “we set this great city up for accelerated progress”.