THE Lagos State Government, under the leadership of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced plans to relocate the Computer Village from Ikeja to Katangua in the Abule-Egba area of the Agbado Oke-Odo LCDA of the Alimosho LGA.
According to media reports, the Special Adviser to the Governor on eGIS and Urban Development, Dr Olajide Babatunde, disclosed this during a joint inspection and enforcement exercise carried out by the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) in conjunction with some law enforcement agencies and other relevant Government agencies in charge of emergency related matters.
Babatunde said the Lagos State Government was trying to reorganise markets in the state.
In his words, “We are trying to reorganise all our markets. I will give an example in Ikeja, we have the Computer Village, which is being relocated to Katangua.
“Hence, it is not just the Computer Village alone; there are other activities that would happen in the Katangua market.
“We are moving those people who seem to be on the road in Ikeja and obstructing traffic into a proper market big enough with all the services, with a creche for their children, schools, playground, churches, mosques, storage room, warehouses, some accommodations, and hotel facilities.
“We are trying to do things in a proper way; we are working on all of these things to ensure that we re-generate, re-develop, innovate, conserve, and anything we need to do in terms of the terminologies we have in urban development, will be put to play in Lagos in way that we would have a greater Lagos rising.”
According to him, in the coming weeks, the efforts of the Government on the Katangua market will be seen.
