Our attention has been drawn to the fallacious and inaccurate write-up cooked by the enemy of good work currently going on in Ikosi Isheri LCDA as regards the Ultra Modern Mega Shopping Mall ( Biggest Mega Shopping Mall in Kosofe) that has just been completed by Ikosi Isheri LCDA under the able leadership of my hardworking boss Princess Samiat Abolanle Bada the Mayoress of Ikosi Isheri LCDA.
The Ikosi fruits market has been one of the notable markets over the years in Lagos and the government will not take any action that will undermine its development economically, and ensure they provide an enabling environment for traders to thrive in their business endeavors, this trajectory Princess Samiat Abolanle Bada has maintained throughout her stay at the helms of affair.
The writer has failed to take into account the developmental blueprint for the market and its environs.
The Mass of land where the Mega Shopping Mall is situated has been occupied in the past by dilapidated old structure Mall built by the regime of Hon. Tunde Buraimoh in the late 90s. It has coexisted with the Jakande fruit market from time immemorial.
Phase 1 is the original portion occupied by the fruit market in the past, housing other trades like Sawmill, Tyre association, and other traders, this was retained in the new building plan to accommodate all existing interests prior to the modernization of the market. Similarly, ensuring that the original occupants were given an offer of first refusal on the allocation for the new stalls.
In her magnanimity, various banking institutions were contacted to provide soft loans for the original occupants towards acquiring the stalls and to ensure they retain their stalls and investments and continue their businesses.
The second phase is totally a different project aimed at turning Ikosi Market environs into an international business hub befitting of a Megacity like lagolas captured in the master blueprint of modern Lagos as conceived by President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu when he held sway as the governor of the Centre of Excellence. This footprint is being followed by our amiable Governor Babajide Sanwoolu and Mayoress Samiat Abolanle Bada.
I want to assure naysayers that a cordial relationship exists between the council and the market leaders which has been espoused by the market inhabitants through good gestures of varying degrees.
Anyone can walk into the market to make a verification in this regard.
I am using this medium to call the attention of everyone that the cooked-up story is aimed at distracting well-meaning people from the positive impact this project will have on the industrial landscape of Kosofe as a whole and to cause disaffection between the market inhabitants and the government led by the Mayoress. Which is dead on arrival.
We are assuring the traders and good people of Ikosi Isheri LCDA that we are committed to ensuring that infrastructural development and periodic socio-economic intervention programs are available to all irrespective of their tribes and religion.
IKOSI ISHERI LCDA SAYS NO TO RACISM
IKOSI ISHERI LCDA SAYS NO TO FAKE NEWS
E -Signed
HON. OGUNLEYE OLAYINKA
DEPUTY MAYOR
IKOSI ISHERI LCDA.