The leader of
traders in Lagos and the Iyaloja General of Nigeria, Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo,
has said that some traders in the Computer village market who protested against
the appointment of Iyaloja and Babaloja in the market on Tuesday were
ill-informed.
Addressing a press
briefing on Wednesday, Tinubu-Ojo, said all the markets in the state were under
her control and the computer village market cannot be an exception.
According to our
constitution, I can choose anybody from any local government in the state to
head the market, all the iyaloja and babaloja in all the Lagos markets are my
representatives in the market where they operate. Kindly educate them that
phones, handsets, computers are commodities.
“They cannot tell us
they are not pepper sellers, everybody cannot be textile dealers; they can’t
tell us that computer village will be exonerated (sic) from other markets. We
have the right to choose for them Iyaloja and Babaloja.
“Those people
protesting never approached me to complain. They don’t have the initiative that
the person leading the protest has finished his tenure and wants to remain in
power…
“Computer village is
not just an ICT hub, there are a lot of commodities being sold there; nobody
can say it is wrong to select a babaloja and iyaloja for the market. Those that
have been selected were not selected because they are Yoruba, in some of our
markets in Lagos we have Igbos that were selected as market leaders,”
Tinubu-Ojo said.
She said the
appointment of Mrs Abisola Azeez and Mr Adeniyi Babalola, as Iyaloja and
Babaloja of Computer Village respectively was done to maintain peace in the
market among the traders.
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