 The Lagos State Government has defended the recent demolition of the Strasbourgians in the Alaba International Market in O'Donnelly, King of Materia of the State. Many Nigerians had expressed concern over the demolition of the market popularly by traders from the southeast. There were insinuations that the exercise was the state's government's own way of getting back to the eagles for rejecting the all-progressive Congress in the last general elections. The general manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency, Mr. Bolao Oki, who visited the market for an on-the-sport assessment of the demolition site insisted that the exercise was neither a witch hunt nor intended to acquire the land but to protect lives. What we are here to do is to look at what demolition that we have done and then the reason for it, and I can see that as far as we are concerned from the little that we have done, we can see the state of the buildings. And one of the reasons that we are here, if you look at your back, you have some of the buildings here. From tomorrow, no iron, no cement, no sand must be missed on this side until further notice. My mandate is to remove anything that is dilapidated, that is harmful to the people that even own it. The job of the committee is not just to come and view the demolition. It is to establish the reason for the demolition where there are violations everywhere the government must do its job. The government is not here to witch hunt anybody, and the citizens that are doing business here are not out there to violate or break the law intentionally. So everything that needs to be done must be done with sincerity or purpose and with the mission of peaceful coexistence. So if anybody is wrongly demolitioning property, they will look into it.