Lagos market gets 14- day eviction notice

AFTER months of negotiation over modernisation of the market, the Lagos State Government through a joint team of Rapid Response Squad ( RRS) and the State Environment and Special Offences Unit ( Task Force), has given occupants of Alaba Rago market 14 days to vacate.

The team led by Commander of RRS, Olayinka Egbeyemi and Chairman of the Task Force, Shola Jejeloye, met the occupants of the market in clusters to inform them of the vacation order.

Egbeyemi, at the forum, explained 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 place in the shortest possible time in the best interest of the residents.

He said last week’s recovery of several guns in Alaba Rago by Ojo Police Division and the revelation by drug dealers that they regularly channel drugs through the area to several parts of the state are the more reasons, government needs to move swiftly to modernise the area for orderliness.