Residents of Oworonshoki and Idi Araba communities in the Kosofe and Mushin native authorities areas of the deliver occupy been thrown into lamentation in July as Governor Sanwo-Olu’s administration launched into the demolition.
Residents of Oworonshoki in the Kosofe native authorities dwelling of Lagos Converse on Saturday held a instruct to register their grievances and to find 22 situation over Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s persevered demolition of their homes, without offering them with change shelters.
The residents, in accordance with movies considered by SaharaReporters, carried assorted placards as they marched along the streets with the cards bearing assorted inscriptions, “Let us breathe, halt the demolition” “Our future is being truncated, halt the demolition” “No to Land grabbing” and “Don’t gain elected to gain us evicted.”
SaharaReporters had reported how residents of Oworonshoki and Idi Araba communities in the Kosofe and Mushin native authorities areas of the deliver occupy been thrown into lamentation in July as Governor Sanwo-Olu’s administration launched into the demolition.
SaharaReporters had gathered that the deliver authorities thru the Ministry of Ambiance and Water Resources had issued the affected residents easiest one week’s check out to vacate their homes, a check out that elapsed on July 27, 2023.
Neighborhood sources instructed SaharaReporters that over 20 homes occupy been decreased to rubble, while the enforcement authorities reportedly denied them the opportunity to steal away their belongings that might possibly presumably also very successfully be salvaged.
In the intervening time, in the instruct on Saturday, one amongst the protesters stated, “Don’t allow us to undergo in vain. Bear mercy on us. We purchased the lands. We didn’t steal the lands without cost.”
SaharaReporters on August 11 also reported that human rights and knowledgeable-democracy community, Rob-It-Lend a hand Movement (TIB) asked the Lagos Converse authorities to steal accountability for the demolition of homes and displacement of wretched households in the Oworonshoki dwelling of the deliver.
deal of of residents of Oworonshoki and Idi Araba communities in the Kosofe and Mushin native authorities areas of Lagos Converse occupy protested against the demolition of their homes by the authorities.
The protesting residents, together with the everyday, pregnant girls folks, and nursing mothers whose easiest homes occupy been demolished demanded that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu might possibly presumably also restful present them with new homes and compensate them for destroying their properties.
SaharaReporters had reported that the deliver authorities thru the Ministry of Ambiance and Water Resources issued the affected residents easiest one week’s check out to vacate their premises, which elapsed, on July 27, 2023.
The Federation of Informal Workers Organization (FIWON) and Rob It Lend a hand (TIB) Movement had condemned the demolition.
The organisations lamented that no fewer than 10,000 of us, together with girls folks and youngsters, had been made homeless on yarn of the demolitions and burning of of us’s homes which started on July 24, 2023.
