Displaced Otodo Gbame Residents Paralyse Activities at Lagos Govt House

There was commotion at the Lagos State House, Alausa, Ikeja yesterday, when hundreds of residents of Otodo Gbame community recently evicted by the state government stormed the seat of power to protest the destruction of their homes.

The protesters who paralyzed activities in the state House for about two hours were reportedly beaten by policemen and also tear-gassed in a bid to stop them from entering the state house.

They displayed placards with inscriptions such as , “90 Moroko demolished,” 300,000 evicted, land sold to the rich,” “Ambode is a soldier in agbada,” “Ambode is a landgrabber among others.”

The spokesman of the group, Paul Kunnu disclosed that in a recent meeting with the government officials, they were asked to document their requests.

He stated that it came as a shock to them as their requests were not given any consideration.

Kunnu said, “Yesterday (Tuesday) we had meeting with the government officials, they told us to bring the list of the people living in the community which is impossible for us as we totaled more than 30,000. They promised to give us special assistance in terms of food stuff but that is not our demand.

” We only want our lands back. Any time we tried to refer them to it, they would stylishly deviate from it. In fact at our last meeting with them, one of them told us not to mention anything about the land again or else they would send us away.