PROTESTANTS SHUT COMPUTER VILLAGE
Traders in the Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos
State, on Tuesday shut down activities to protest the planned installation of
female and male market leaders “Iyaoloja” and “Babaloja” respectively in the
hub.
The traders told a Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria covering the protest that the computer
village was an international market that did not need such imposition of
Iyaoloja.
Mr Wasiu Agbaje, an Information Communication
Technology Engineer, said that hub was not like the regular markets where such
should be imposed.
Agbaje said that installing such would
undermine the hub because there was no relationship between technology and
Iyaoloja.
“What do the Iyaoloja and Babaloja have to
offer, what value are they going to add to the hub? And what technological
innovations are they bringing?
The computer village is not like any other
street market where pepper and other things are sold.
“It is an international technology hub and it
should be treated as such,” he said.
Also, a businessman who preferred anonymity
told NAN that the computer village was an international
market and should be treated as such.
According to him, it will undermine the
position of computer village internationally as the biggest technological hub
in West Africa.
He said installing such Iyaoloja and Babaloja
would contradict what the hub was known for and breach the peace there because
it was not a regular market.
A Software developer, Mr Joseph Efosa, said
that such installation would disturb the 25 years of peaceful existence of the
hub.
Efosa said that the computer village was not
a regular market and such installation was not needed.
(NAN)
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