It is over a year the Makoko waterfront was demolished by government agents, reproduced below are some of the pictures that captured the mood and conviviality among occupants of the floating slum before and during the demolition exercise.







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My goodness

Anselm Madubuko! Are you for real?

Where were these inhabitants evacuated to?

Ppl dey suffer o!

Suffering and smiling, looking happier than people living in vgc

Chei!! Na wa oh!! I wonder how many of them die from water borne diseases!

Nna mehn..na dis kind d make world bank say we dey live on less than a $1...
Chai people dey better suffering

Anyways I the sight my white garment members..even with the filth their white is still sparkling ..AYO NIYI oooo

Bit by Bit,I would build my city right.

lagbaja: Suffering and smiling

Should they be suffering and crying ?

You can begin to imagine the desperation that made the inhabitants of Makoko to leave serene and quiet villages lto come and leave in this dumpster.
The damage that crude oil has done to the national physche is grossly underestimated.

Lord! I thank you for providing for my parents, I thank you for providing the BEST shelter for my family, I thank you for protecting my family from deadly mosquitoes. Lord, as you've help my family and people around me, please help the suffering masses and help them live a comfortable life. AMEN

Where is th Lagos state government? I hope their flying cable car will reach these poor people

This the type of slum these "Cele" people love to establish their churches.

Kai! All just to say, "I de for Lagos." People are really suffering!

where are the pictures of makoko after the demolition? no animal should have been allowed to live in this inhumane condition, let alone homo sapiens!

NOW WHAT IS THE WAY 4WARD NOW? BECOS TAKIN THIS PEOPLW AWAY FROM THEIR NATURAL N HABITAT WILL SPEND DOOM FOR THEM ALL. THIS ARE PEOPLE WHOSE ANCESTORS STARTED WITH MAKOKO BF FASHOLA WAS BORN. LET NOT 4GET ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF BAKASI WHO ARE YET TO SETTLED BY THE FG...

Jezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, you gotta be kidding me

Mheeeen!!!
Demolishing it was the right thing to do. How could people have lived like that? Chai!!
These are really sorry pictures.

Looking at this pictures I can't help to imagine how these people day in day out looked towards heaven, pray for a better life, pray that things should turn around for them, do their best to turn things in their favor. For those years, there are people whose "carelessness" resulted to this mess. These same people whose "thiefry" left these people ( not just the people of Makoko but other down trodden in our society) also look towards heaven; give praises to the same God whom the people of Makoko prays to as well, the people responsible for these dutifully pays their tithe out of their spoils and year in year out they receive more "blessings", year in year out the people of Makoko slid continually into hardship. I just can't help to think that maybe the "god" of the people responsible for the rots in our society seems to be the true God, while the "gods" of the masses is either a sub-god or he is on leave of absence or maybe the masses have been looking towards "empty" heaven.

NB: Our leaders get mind, imagine the condition them put people inside.

zolajpower: NOW WHAT IS THE WAY 4WARD NOW? BECOS TAKIN THIS PEOPLW AWAY FROM THEIR NATURAL N HABITAT WILL SPEND DOOM FOR THEM ALL. THIS ARE PEOPLE WHOSE ANCESTORS STARTED WITH MAKOKO BF FASHOLA WAS BORN. LET NOT 4GET ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF BAKASI WHO ARE YET TO SETTLED BY THE FG...

Sorry to say bro, but we should be more concerned about where they wer at that Moment, did you see all that photo for real..? the Govt did them a whole lot of good..i am sure they are somewhere better that what i just saw...You even called that place a Natural habitat..they are humans and not pigs, only pigs would consider such environment as being a natural habitat of existence

Is this place not MAKOKO?
I can remember I saw Odo Iya alaro the other time I went to one of our family house there in 2008?

chei: Where were these inhabitants evacuated to?

Wherever it is or is not, I'm sure it'll be a lot better than this eyesore.

In one word ,EYESORE.

Now i understand why it had to go. Thumbs up Gov Fashola.

Damn!!! The people who lived there have really endured alot.. Wetin life wan take stone dem again wey dem never see before?
Mehn,i'm speechless!
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All izz well!