Tinubu Goes On Rampage, Shuts Computer Village Demands N5Million Daily

 

Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, the daughter of National Leader of the All Progressive Congress(APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone on rampage.

Tinubu-Ojo who is also the Iyaloja General of Lagos has shut down Nigeria’s equivalent of the silicon valley, the Computer Village, which is the hub of ICT accessories in Nigeria. 

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She gave her aides the order, who invaded the village overnight removed signboards of the various associations domiciled in the village with the order that no shop should open for business. 

Nigerians who survive daily on income from the Computer Village have been locked out. Her order was carried out at a time, when many are just recovering from the lockdown, following the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. 

According to reports, her grievance stems from the refusal of about five thousand businessmen, some of them experts inhabiting the hub, to pay the imposed levy of N1000 per day, irrespective of about 15 other existing associations, all registered by the Federal Government, in what many have described as political move to keep the area under control. 

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Some shop owners who spoke revealed that they will never submit to her authority. They wondered how Folasade will want to wield her influence in a hub where she has no shop. 

They disclosed that the leadership in the market is based on democratic election and challenged her to put up a candidate when elections are due. 

It was also learnt that the hub had already succumbed to a Baba Oloja who also owned no shop in the area but that this time, it will be fight to finish as they will no succumb to the pressure. Also last year, members of the Computer Village protested her decision to impose Iyaloja on them. 

Reacting to the issue, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo said; 

“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 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… 

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“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.”