Lagos State Government has announced plans to move Computer Village from Ikeja to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Park in Katangowa, Agbado/Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the state.
The Special Adviser to the governor on electronic – Geographic Information System (e-GIS) and Planning Matters, Mr. Olajide Babatunde made this known while addressing newsmen over the weekend.
Mr. Babatunde said: “We are trying to reorganise all our markets. I will give you an example. In Ikeja, we have a computer village. The computer village is being relocated.
“We are relocating them to Katangowa. It is not just the computer village alone. Other activities will happen in the Katangowa market.
“In the next coming weeks, you will see government effort on Katangowa. So, we are moving these people who seem to be on the road in Ikeja also obstructing traffic into a proper market big enough with all the services, including creche for their children, schools, playgrounds, mosques, churches, accommodation and hotel facilities, storage rooms, warehouses.”
He stressed that the government is trying to do things properly in a way that the state can regenerate, redevelop, renovate and conserve.
He added: “Anything that we need to do in terms of the terminologies that we have in urban development will be put to play in Lagos in a way that you are going to have a greater Lagos.”
