By PETER ANOSIKE

The President General of Alaba International Amalgamated Council of sectional heads, Chief Camilus Amajuoyi, has said that frivolous court cases would not deter him from doing the good things he has in mind for the biggest electronics and electrical market in West Africa.

Amajuoyi, who is also the President of International Market Association Electronics (IMAE), Ojo Alaba, said that what he has found out in life and in leadership is that some people don’t like development, let alone progress.

He said the progress that his administration is making in the transformation of the market has come to stay, adding that no court would derail his focused and determined leadership.

According to him, electronics section which is his own primary constituency is now wearing a very new look, and that from there, the entire Alaba is being transformed both mentally and architecturally.

He said that before he was elected, touts were having a free reign, terrorizing both traders and customers, but now sanity has been restored in the market.

Speaking further in a recent interview, he said that with the giant strides that him and his executive has made within one and half year of coming into office, it is worrisome that some people would want to take them to court.

His words: “The slogan of my campaign when I was running for the office of the president of International Market Association Electronics, Ojo Alaba was the ‘New Face of Alaba’ because I was determined to give the international market a face lift and to the glory of God, we achieved that just few months of our coming into office that if you come to our secretariat today, you would see that we have restored the glory of Alaba as an international market. Again, before we come on board, touts were the lords in the market, harassing and intimidating both the traders and the customers to the extent that we were losing customers in droves because they were afraid of coming to the market. We, in conjunction with Ojo local government council and security agencies fought and drove the touts away. As I speak with you, nobody is being harassed or intimidated in the market. Where we used to have floods in the market, I have provided interlock tiles. I have dug boreholes to make water available for all. I have widened the main access road to the market, just to mention a few. It was therefore worrisome when I was informed that the association was sued in the court. My only conclusion is that the elements that took us to court have only one intention, which is to take back the hand of the court. To stop the progress that is being made in the market with regard to peace and infrastructural development. Some people are allergic to progress and development, so wherever they see it, they would try to fight it. Even though we preach and also practice peace, but we are not cowards. Whoever wants trouble will get it double. We are equal to the task.”

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