It was reported last Friday that the state government had served a 24-hour quit notice on all the traders at the POWA shopping complex.

The Lagos State Government has denied having any hand in the demolition of the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) shopping complex in the Computer Village in Ikeja.

It was reported last Friday that the state government had served a 24-hour quit notice on all the traders at the POWA shopping complex.

The vacation order notices were pasted on shops at the complex.

It was also reported that the government gave the quit notice because the POWA Phase I and II had become dilapidated, defaced, and distressed.

The traders claimed that the demolition plan was proposed by Achieving Greatness Limited to the National President of POWA and the National Market Leader.

The affected traders told journalists that there was a court order stopping the planned demolition.

However, on Sunday, the state government said it had nothing to do with the demolition at Computer Village in Ikeja.

A statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, said, “The structure is owned by the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA), which ordered its demolition.

“Those circulating the fake news that Lagos State Government is demolishing Computer Village are opportunistic ethnic chauvinists who will always relish in vacuous propaganda that can fuel their fiendish mission; they will always fail in dividing Lagosians.”

Meanwhile, there have been comments online accusing the state government of having an agenda to drive Igbo people (people from southeast Nigeria) away from Lagos.