MAKOKO.....SAD STORY OF ANOTHER DEMOLITION

EKO MEGA CITY......LAGOS State government, on Monday, commenced the demolition of the large Makoko waterfront slum. Incase you are wondering where Makoko is.....
 When you have seen The Famous third mainland bridge, you have seen the settlement, which i hear is about 107 years old.

A letter was served on residents last week, giving them 72 hours to vacate their properties.
Several told the BBC they did not know where they and their families would sleep.
 Men  were seen using machetes to chop down the stilts of the wooden homes, while police watched from nearby boats.(TYPICAL OF NIGERIA!)
The letter from the Lagos state authorities says the illegal constructions constituted an "environmental nuisance, security risk and an impediment to the economic and gainful utilisation of the waterfront" and undermined the "megacity status" of Lagos.
The exact number of people that will be affected by the exercise is yet to acsertained but it is clear that  no fewer than 30,000 people lived in the targeted slum.

The Makoko community which is divided between land-based and waterfront areas, will have only the inland residents  affected by the demolitions.There have been denials of complaints in some quarters that the government had not duly notified the affected residents, the community leader, Mr Ray-mond Adekunle Akonse-moyin, said “the government has repeatedly given enough notice to those occupying these illegal structures to leave. But this has been to no avail.”
 It is another sad story and what this means is Lagos and Neighbouring states will be flooded with homeless Nigerians..... is Governor Fashola actually doing the right thing? Is the man trying to be more logical than emotional??? Lagos is a city that draws people from different walks of life and i don't see these people heading any where!