Are The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway Demolitions Targeted At a Particular Ethnic Nationality?

We trivialize the demolition of properties for development when we tribalize them. It is sad for some people to say the demolitions to make way for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project are targeted at them. Are they saying others outside their ethnic group who are affected are not important or are subhuman?

Let us not be indifferent to the feelings of others and ultra-sensitive to ours.

And it is regrettable that the wife of Kingsley Moghalu, a former Central Bank Deputy Governor and Presidential candidate, is spreading these conspiracy theories.

When Moghalu was Deputy Governor at the CBN, he and Emir Sanusi Lamido seized several banks from their rightful owners. The vast majority of those whose banks were seized were Southern Nigerians. They were accused of an anti-South agenda. But reasonable people saw reason with them. Today, I wish Mr. Moghalu could also ask those close to him to restrain themselves.

Please fact-check this: When the Third Mainland Bridge was conceptualized by President Shehu Shagari, over 500 homes were marked for demolition. For the proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge, 800 homes are to be demolished.

It is a standard procedure all over the world. Please research it. In 2018, 2000 homes were destroyed in Kibera, Kenya, to make way for a highway. In the US, hundreds of homes are destroyed yearly to make way for urban renewal.

As long as you compensate those with legal titles, this is entirely procedural and quotidian. Stop making it about ethnicity.

To now make it about hatred for a particular ethnic nationality, when other ethnicities were more affected, does Nigeria no good.

And for prominent Nigerians from that ethnicity to spread messages on social media and on WhatsApp fora asking people not to invest in Lagos is to show double standards, because this is a federal project, not a Lagos State Government project. And both Lagos and the Federal Government are known for paying compensation when they demolish, unlike other states.

The Minister of Works has announced that just today only, almost ₦3 billion has been paid in compensation.

And finally, it is IMPOSSIBLE for any individual, business, or entity to own beaches by Nigerian law.

Please fact-check me: Not a single person now accusing the Federal Government of being against a particular ethnicity as they demolish structures in the Right of Way of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project said anything when 250 properties were demolished by the Federal Government in Asaba, Delta State, to make way for the Second Niger Bridge project.

Some prominent personalities celebrated that incident.

So, why are they now attacking the Lagos State Government today? And funny enough, it is the same Federal Government, not the Lagos State Government, that is demolishing properties to make way for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project.

Two identical scenarios, and two different reactions!

Reno Omokri
 



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Toh

We tribalize everything in this country

You guys are just mischievous. What we're saying is that the detour from the original route was done to target landmark $200 million business

eddie7:
Are The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway Demolitions Targeted At a Particular Ethnic Nationality?

We trivialize the demolition of properties for development when we tribalize them. It is sad for some people to say the demolitions to make way for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project are targeted at them. Are they saying others outside their ethnic group who are affected are not important or are subhuman?

Let us not be indifferent to the feelings of others and ultra-sensitive to ours.

And it is regrettable that the wife of Kingsley Moghalu, a former Central Bank Deputy Governor and Presidential candidate, is spreading these conspiracy theories.

When Moghalu was Deputy Governor at the CBN, he and Emir Sanusi Lamido seized several banks from their rightful owners. The vast majority of those whose banks were seized were Southern Nigerians. They were accused of an anti-South agenda. But reasonable people saw reason with them. Today, I wish Mr. Moghalu could also ask those close to him to restrain themselves.

Please fact-check this: When the Third Mainland Bridge was conceptualized by President Shehu Shagari, over 500 homes were marked for demolition. For the proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge, 800 homes are to be demolished.

It is a standard procedure all over the world. Please research it. In 2018, 2000 homes were destroyed in Kibera, Kenya, to make way for a highway. In the US, hundreds of homes are destroyed yearly to make way for urban renewal.

As long as you compensate those with legal titles, this is entirely procedural and quotidian. Stop making it about ethnicity.

To now make it about hatred for a particular ethnic nationality, when other ethnicities were more affected, does Nigeria no good.

And for prominent Nigerians from that ethnicity to spread messages on social media and on WhatsApp fora asking people not to invest in Lagos is to show double standards, because this is a federal project, not a Lagos State Government project. And both Lagos and the Federal Government are known for paying compensation when they demolish, unlike other states.

The Minister of Works has announced that just today only, almost ₦3 billion has been paid in compensation.

And finally, it is IMPOSSIBLE for any individual, business, or entity to own beaches by Nigerian law.

Please fact-check me: Not a single person now accusing the Federal Government of being against a particular ethnicity as they demolish structures in the Right of Way of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project said anything when 250 properties were demolished by the Federal Government in Asaba, Delta State, to make way for the Second Niger Bridge project.

Some prominent personalities celebrated that incident.

So, why are they now attacking the Lagos State Government today? And funny enough, it is the same Federal Government, not the Lagos State Government, that is demolishing properties to make way for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project.

Two identical scenarios, and two different reactions!

Reno Omokri
 



#C O P I E D

There were other people who owned businesses there.

The notice was sent to all of them and they had sufficient evacuation notice.

For those who lived in Lagos, they must have been used to demolitions of people's houses for public good. For example, the Orile Badagry Expressway had some demolitions on the Orile axis and there were not much complaints.

Because someone wanted an illegal access to the beachfront in the recent case, he refused to comply with the eviction notice. How come other people did not complain?

What was supposed to be a routine exercise turned out to be interpreted as targeting a tribe.

That was in bad taste. Initially, I wanted to support the man, but when I noticed he was trying to cast aspersions on the government when he was clearly in the wrong, I did my own investigations.

Till now, why has he not gone to court if he had any claims?

To answer your question, I don't think the demolitions are targeted at any tribe because there is no reason for it. It is just that some people play the tribal cards for personal reasons.

What I expect sensible people to do is request their own projects. There is gully erosion ravaging the south-east. Ask for it to be addressed. Ask for a major project. Ask for railway. Ask for a new university.

But no. Play the victim.

Where has that gotten you?

Reno is now the new a11ah of Y0r0ba Muzlems… those Agbado P1GS are now the new wailing almajiris of Nigeria 😂 and will wail to DE@TH from Tinubu toture of showing them the difference between a town hall and bulaba ( bulaba)

Saint P.O is ignoring the jobber....


What has Reno Omokri done to Ebola that he refused to settle him with one appointment?

Esco Baba, even if na gutter cleaning adviser, just give that chatterbox so that he can have something to feed from. The boy don try.

Meanwhile, Reno fellow azz-licker, FFK, has slowed down on praising Esco Baba since he refused to reward him with an appointment.

DMerciful:
You guys are just mischievous. What we're saying is that the detour from the original route was done to target landmark $200 million business

there is nothing left in most of your brain called sense,so the beach is what you estimated at $200m,did he buy the Atlantic Ocean?.
How on earth does landmark beach and resort mean landmark properties?,some of you are no reasonable than average Fulani cow I swear.

DMerciful:
You guys are just mischievous. What we're saying is that the detour from the original route was done to target landmark $200 million business

That is stupid...other people around him have surffered losses more than him

And more people would have suffered losses had they sticked to the old plan.

The completed road will still end up benefiting landmark.

A 200 million resort that very few people have heared of prior to the construction of the road