Lagos evicts Alaba Rago traders, says market now criminals’ den
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The Lagos State Government has given the occupants and traders of Alaba Rago a 14-day ultimatum to vacate the market.
The government gave the eviction notice through a joint team of Rapid Response Squad and Lagos Taskforce.
In a statement on Thursday, the government said the decision was reached after several months of negotiation with representatives of the occupiers of Alaba Rago over the modernisation of the market.
The statement was titled, ‘Alaba Rago: Lagos serves eviction notices’.
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The joint team, which was led by Commander, Rapid Response Squadn, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi and Chairman, Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce), Sola Jejeloye, met the occupants of the market in clusters to inform them of the 14-day vacation order.
Egbeyemi stated that emerging security reports from the area have shown that “Alaba Rago has become a den of criminals”, stressing that the state government has concluded plans to modernise the market in the best interest of the residents.
He stated that “last week’s recovery of several guns in Alaba Rago by Ojo Police Division and the revelation by drug dealers that they regularly funnel drugs through the area to several parts of the State is the more reasons government need to move swiftly to modernise the area for there to be orderliness.”
