Thousands of people inwards Nigeria's Lagos terra firma were left homeless on Dominicus after police pull stormed an informal angling village as well as laid upwards burn to their homes, according to rights groups as well as residents.
Community members of the Otodo Gbame riverine community said armed police pull fired bullets as well as tear gas indiscriminately, forcing them onto canoes inwards the H2O equally their houses were levelled.
One human was shot inwards the cervix as well as afterwards died, residents as well as Justice as well as Empowerment Initiatives (JEI), a Lagos-based grouping working amongst the community, told Al Jazeera.
"[Police] came very, really early on inwards the morn [of Sunday]," Tina Edukpo, a 21-year-old Otodo Gbame resident, told Al Jazeera yesteryear phone.
"When I saw them, I was surprised," she said.
JEI co-director Andrew Maki, who arrived to the community soon after the demolitions began, said that at to the lowest degree l to sixty officers as well as 10 police pull vehicles were inwards Otodo Gbame inwards the morning.
He told Al Jazeera that the Lagos State Task Force officeholder inwards accuse at the site told him as well as residents that police pull were in that location on the orders of the governor.
It said it believes "militants" were using the community equally a base, an accusation residents as well as rights groups deny.
It too said the village was "illegal, without whatever championship or appropriate regime approval".
Maki said on Dominicus that police pull shot tear gas as well as bullets, forcing thousands of residents onto boats.
"Everyone inwards the community was forced onto the water, in that location were hundreds of boats," Maki said.
The Otodo Gbame community is i of many informal settlements along the waterfront of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.
In January, a Lagos courtroom issued an injunction halting demolitions inwards such communities after an estimated 30,000 Otodo Gbame residents were evicted inwards Nov 2016 to brand agency for evolution projects, rights groups said.
JEI as well as Amnesty International defendant the regime of violating that courtroom gild on March 17 when excavators as well as police pull razed of homes of at to the lowest degree 4,700 Otodo Gbame residents.
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| Rights groups said to a greater extent than than 4,700 people were displaced inwards March when Lagos police pull demolished many of the homes inwards Otodo-Gbame [Sunday Alamba/AP] [The Associated Press] |
Following final month's demolition, Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode
issued a statement defending the move, maxim it was non inwards violation of the Jan injunction.
Ambode said the evictions were carried out "to ensure that the waterfront surface area is gratis from environmentally injurious as well as unsanitary habitation a few months after it was consumed yesteryear fired as well as rendered uninhabitable".
The regime has also
said it was non responsible for the burn that displaced thousands inwards Nov 2016, instead blaming an "ethnic clash" betwixt residents of unlike communities.
H5N1 ruling on a courtroom illustration against the governor as well as other Lagos officials - filed yesteryear JEI as well as dozens of waterfront communities inwards Lagos - over the March demolition is expected on Wednesday.
'We accept to rebuild'
Last year, rights groups warned that to a greater extent than than 300,000 people faced eviction from waterfront communities across Lagos state.
Makeshift housing is mutual inwards the poorest parts of Lagos, a urban center of to a greater extent than than xx 1000000 people.
Morayo Adebayo, a senior researcher at Amnesty International, defendant the regime of terra firma grabbing.
"This is a terra firma pick out handgrip of situation. That is what is happening," Morayo told Al Jazeera yesteryear scream on Sunday.
"Otodo Gbame residents are fishermen who derive their daily sustenance from the water," she said. "They accept been hither for to a greater extent than than fourscore years."
Residents, including Kunnu as well as Edukpo, vowed to rebuild.
"I desire to rebuild my dwelling trouble solid because I don't accept whatever other identify to go," Edukpo said. "This is the 3rd fourth dimension they accept demolished my home."
Kunnu agreed.
"[These are] our homes where our fathers as well as grandfathers accept lived," he said. "We accept to rebuild."
Source: Al Jazeera News
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