Alaba International Market | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:49:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Alaba International Market | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 Lagos govt shuts down Alaba International Market https://www.insideojodu.com/lagos-govt-shuts-down-alaba-international-market/ https://www.insideojodu.com/lagos-govt-shuts-down-alaba-international-market/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:46:01 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=50875 The Lagos State Government has taken decisive action by sealing off the Alaba International…

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The Lagos State Government has taken decisive action by sealing off the Alaba International Market due to a multitude of environmental violations, including poor waste disposal practices and failure to pay waste bills.

The Commissioner for Environment, Tokunbo Wahab, made this announcement on the social media platform, X, on Monday.

The closure was a result of the market’s persistent non-compliance with environmental sanitation regulations and obligations related to waste management.

In his statement on X, Wahab emphasized the necessity of adhering to these vital environmental standards.

“Alaba International Market, Ojo has been sealed up for poor waste disposal practices, failure to pay their waste bills, and gross environmental sanitation offences,” he wrote on X.

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LASBCA demolishes Alaba market distressed plazas https://www.insideojodu.com/lasbca-demolishes-alaba-market-distressed-plazas/ https://www.insideojodu.com/lasbca-demolishes-alaba-market-distressed-plazas/#respond Mon, 19 Jun 2023 07:38:33 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=45991 Officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, on Sunday, stormed the popular Alaba…

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Officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, on Sunday, stormed the popular Alaba International Market in Ojo and demolished 17 “distressed” plazas.

LASBCA officials, escorted by armed Task Force officials, stormed the market in the early hours of Sunday to demolish the affected buildings.

A statement on Sunday afternoon said LASBCA’s bulldozers went to work on the buildings immediately they arrived at the site on Sunday morning.

The targeted buildings had been marked for demolition since Friday, following the agency’s announcement that the structures would be demolished before Monday.

LASBCA’s General Manager, Gbolahan Oki, said on Friday that the agency had served several vacation notices on occupants of the structures since 2016.

He said, “We have been serving them notices since 2016 and when we came on board, we served them too. What they do whenever we go there is to send area boys to disrupt our services.

“About a month ago, we made a list of 349 distressed buildings. The properties marked are supposed to be on the list and due to the fact that they harass our staff, they are not captured on the list. They won’t allow our staff to do their jobs and that is why they are not on the list.

“So, we had to call the task force to enforce what we are supposed to do and these notices have been served them since last year and apart from that, these properties have been served since 2016.”

Some of the shopping plazas demolished were identified as G80 Alaba Rago Road, Good Season Shopping Complex, the building on 840 Ojo Igbede and the structure behind Oba Oseni plaza.

Oki had hinted on Friday that the agency would not “stop at the 17 distressed buildings, but we are moving to other localities. We have several buildings to be demolished, about 400.”

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