Ikeja Computer Village to be moved to Katangua - Comm. Wasiu Anifowose

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The ever busy Computer Village located at Otigba in Ikeja, is to be relocated before the end of 2017.


Wasiu Anifowose, the state commissioner for physical planning and urban development, has revealed plans of the Lagos state government to relocate traders in that axis, in a bid to reduce gridlock.

Anifowose, during this year ministerial press briefing in Alausa, Ikeja said:

“If at the end of this administration, the Computer Village is not moved from that Otigba Street in Ikeja to Katangua, I will not come here next year.

“It is a done deal; we have held a stakeholders’ meeting with the traders and they agreed to the relocation plan.

It is an 11-year project that different administrations attempted to undertake but the present governor is a go-getter.

“The relocation will deliver a world class computer and allied activities park. The process leading to the commencement of the development is in the concluding phase,” he said.

The official also said that massive construction was ongoing in Imota – the permanent site of the Mile 12 Market in Ketu – to relocate the market.

“If you go to Imota, you will be amazed at the level of work done,” he added.

He noted that the state government had begun paying compensation to those whose houses were affected by government projects.

“The state government pays billions of naira for compensation,” he said.