Destruction crew renders widows, kids destitute in Lagos

In the Oworoshoki area of the state, agents of the Lagos State Government set fire to several homes and destroyed others, leaving a number of women and children homeless.

no less than six roads were impacted by the destruction that began last Monday, with a further danger by the team that others would be destroyed on Tuesday

At the point when our journalist visited the region on Monday, a few youngsters and older ladies were seen resting outside their consumed houses while some others were taking shelter inside deserted tricycles.

A few occupants who talked with us  mourned that the state government didn’t give them notice, adding that individuals were not permitted to take out their possessions before they torched their structures.Abductors gathered N350,000 to deliver me, says Ondo grab casualty

We discovered that roads, for example, Oke-Eri, Oluwaseyi, People group, Foundation, Ogo-Oluwa, Lagos and others, lodging no less than 7,000 structures had been transformed into cinders and garbage.

Oke-Eri, a septuagenarian just recognized as Mother Alhaji said her charcoal business had been obliterated by the consuming.

“They came to this place without notice,” said the teary-eyed elderly woman who had lived in the area for more than 33 years. For the past 33 years, I have lived here. My home was at number 32, Oke-Eri. They didn’t give us any notification. We were informed that some houses were destroyed by fire on the riverbank on Monday.

“Not long from that point forward, they came to Oke-Eri and crushed a few structures that were inverse mine. At the point when I saw that the houses inverse mine had been crushed, I began pressing a portion of my effects out of the spot. However, before I returned on Friday, my home and a few packs of charcoal esteemed at over N60,000 had been singed.”

Another resident, a mother of five, stated that the demolition had destroyed her possessions and that all five of her children now seek refuge at one of the neighborhood’s nearby churches.

The widow said, “I was not around when they came. Half of our belongings had been destroyed before I got back. There is nowhere for me or my five children to go. One of my friends, who had also been affected by the demolition, advised us to go to a nearby church and manage there. Since our homes were destroyed on Monday, we have been living here.

eight lost their four-room condo including a shop that was being overseen by the spouse to the destruction.

The dad, just known as Mr Akande who , said the state government ought to have informed the inhabitants, mourning that the team tear-gassed occupants and crushed cell phones of individuals recording as the consuming proceeded.

Akande said, “The young were kept from taking pictures and shooting the team. They smashed some phones and took people’s phones. My four-room loft including my better half’s shop was scorched. I have every one of the archives including the overview. They ought to have informed us beforehand.