The Lagos State government has announced plans to relocate the Computer Village from Ikeja to Katangua in the Abule-Egba area.
Dr. Olajide Babatunde, the Special Adviser to the Governor on eGIS and Urban Development, revealed this during a joint inspection and enforcement exercise on Saturday.
“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,” stated Babatunde.
“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,” he stated
“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.”
The attempt to relocate the Computer Village has been since 2017.
