Makoko demolitions leave thousands homeless as Lagos clears waterfront settlement
Makoko, often described as a floating slum, has existed for decades and is home to tens of thousands of people who depend largely on fishing and small-scale trading.
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00:00Residents of Makoko, one of Lagos' oldest fishing communities, are struggling to survive after Lagos State Government demolished part of the densely populated waterfront settlement, leaving thousands without shelter and livelihoods.
00:16Displaced residents say they received little or no warning and were left with nowhere to go.
00:25On January 9th, the government came to demolish our house.
00:30We were not informed of their arrival, and since that incident, we have had nowhere to go.
00:36It rained some days ago, and it fell on us and our belongings.
00:40We have been staying here with the remains of our property because we have nowhere else to go.
00:49The demolition have hit fishing families particularly hard.
00:53Victor Hansu, a fisherman, says his wife was hospitalized shortly after the demolition.
00:58After the demolition, my wife, who recently gave birth to twins, was hospitalized.
01:06She has just returned home from the hospital.
01:10This is the place where my family and I are currently sleeping, and it's not safe or suitable.
01:17Many of our belongings were destroyed.
01:19If not for God, I would have lost one of my twins because of the tear gas that was thrown.
01:31Fear and uncertainty remains widespread among displaced residents, especially as the rainy season approaches.
01:38What scared me the most in all that has been happening is that we don't know where to sleep.
01:46We have nowhere to go.
01:48When it starts raining, where do we go from here?
01:52As Lakers continues its rapid urban expansion, right groups warn that redevelopment is increasingly pushing low-income communities
02:02off valuable waterfront land without adequate resettlement plans.
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