Displaced 158 slum residents meets dawn at detention after taking protest to Ambode’s gate

Their only crime was that they slept at entrance of Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode’s office during a protest to register their sufferings as people as residents of Otodo-Gbame community who were displaced from their place of abode early in 2017, but little did they know that 158 0f them dawn would be at the police station where they were detained after been arrested from government premises.

It was gathered that among the 158 residents, who were arrested by the law enforcement agency, includes a pregnant woman and two other female protesters.

Sources said that the protesters were arrested at about 12 am on Thursday while passing the night at the entrance of the State House, Ikeja.

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