Computer village shuts down to protest allege government harassment

The Phone and Allied Products Dealer Association of Nigeria, PAPDAN has said it will begin a shutdown of the computer village to protest alleged harassment of business owners at the nation’s leading technology market.
This is coming after the breakdown of law and order at the Ikeja Computer Village market on Saturday, when the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON clamped down on fake phone dealers.
The raid, which took suspected phone dealers by surprise, brought about heated argument between the phone dealers and officials of SON, who carried out the raid in the company of heavily armed policemen.
Its General Secretary, Mr. John Oboro, who blamed the situation on the manner in which the arrest was made, said that PAPDAN’s 5000-member business in ikeja computer village would shut down their business as from today to protest the alleged harassment.
According to the market’s online source, the propose shutdown of business come just as the computer and all allied products dealers association of Nigeria, CAPDAN the umbrella body of the market condemned what it describes as the “harassment of the leadership of the PAPDAN” during the Saturday morning market raids by policemen and SON over alleged counterfeit products raid in Ikeja computer village.