A victim of the Oworonshoki demolition in Lagos State has cried out to the state, traditional ruler of the place and well-meaning people of the state for help, saying they are currently stranded.
Speaking in an interview on ‘The Morning Brief’, a programme on Channels Television monitored by Newspot on Monday, the 63-year-old victim, who did not provide her name said they have no where to lay their heads.
”We are not goats; we are not animals. The government should please help us. What they did was that, before the demolition, we saw them giving some people N200,000 and N300,000 and they were giving it to the indigene. Even most of the people that collected the money don’t have a home. They are indigenous people of Oworonshoki.
“We were not told that they were coming to our area to demolish. And even if they want to demolish our houses, will N200,000 be enough to get us a new house? I’m going with my children. I can’t leave them. We stay inside this tank and they came there to burn it.
“Some of us were sleeping inside the water tank. Some people put cloth, and they came there to burn those thing again. We are just staying around. Some people sleep on this street, anywhere we see we sleep.
“What I’m begging is that if it is Lagos state government that is doing this thing, they should come. They should please help us. We are not goats. We are not animals. They should have pity on us. This is too much. There are some people there that have stroke that can cannot even stand,” the teary old woman cries out.
