Admin l Thursday, May 02, 2019
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Iyaloja General of Nigeria, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo has said she has the constitutional backing to impose Iyaloja and Babaloja in computer village, Ikeja, Lagos.
Folashade Tinubu-Ojo who was speaking in Lagos, said those who protested against the appointment of Iyaloja and Babaloja in the market on Tuesday were ill-informed.
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…
“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,” Tinubu-Ojo said.
