₦airaland Forum

7lives:
Venice is sinking as we speak.
Oh you've not heard?.

And you think that Lagos is not sinking?
There are some parts of the state/city that are already sinking.

On the road leading to Akodo-Ise, once-full mangrove forests are also depleting quickly – more evidence of the escalating climate disaster.

Less than 30 minutes up the road, there is the Lekki free trade zone, the Dangote oil refinery – the seventh-largest in the world – and the Lekki deep sea port, all grand economic ventures that signal the bubbling economic pulse of the area. But some of these projects have been accused of accelerating the climate challenges in nearby communities.

Lateef Shittu, the village chieftain, told Al Jazeera many problems started at about the time construction of the Dangote refinery began in 2004, and that dredging activities have forced water to push against their village.

Experts say the claims from Akodo-Ise about the effect of dredging and large-scale developments on its coastline are grounded in scientific evidence and observable impacts.

These projects “disrupt sediment flow along the coast, destabilising the shoreline and making it more vulnerable to erosion”, Adenike Adesemolu, the director of The Green Institute, a Lagos-based sustainability think tank, told Al Jazeera.
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Meanwhile, Akodo-Ise’s plight is spreading across Lagos, with different parts of the city battling climate disasters such as flooding. In October, the government said Lagos is sinking and might be uninhabitable by the end of this century as experts warned that the sea level may rise faster than earlier said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2024/11/24/lost-homes-and-rising-seas-a-nigerian-coastal-community-fears-extinction

KonteYoruba:
More destitutes to be chased back to ondo and ogun state

Helinues get ready o

Mostly Togolese fishing families.

Sleekfingers:
The last time I checked, there are 36 states in Nigeria....they can move to any other State, if they can't rent an apartment.

That place is a complete mess. Allowing some people to be calling Lagos a slum

How is a city that doesn’t have water supply to every house not a slum

Sleekfingers:
Rehouse people who think renting an apartment like every other person in Lagos is a crime. ?
And decided to build shanties all over the place.....
Rehouse people who doesn't have any business living in Lagos ?
Go to Makoko and see the rubbish going on there.. they chose to build house illegally on the water , which is government property.....who give the permission to build there ?

This is the way they turn bar beach to nonsense until the federal government took over.
Those shanties are mostly dens of criminals.
A good riddance to a bad rubbish.

7lives:
Rada rada, the sand filling that created Eko Atlantic didn't create any ecological disaster, na Makoko own go create problem.
Una sha must display una ignorance.

Eko Atlantic own is an engineering wonder.
Filling some part of an ocean to create a city.

Na ordinary lagoon go come be problem ?

tommy589:
Government should make better arrangement for them than they did Maroko people.
Makoko is some Lagosians ancestral home.It is the only home they know.No one with enough money would want to rent a home there,some resort to live their temporarily until they pick the broken bits and pieces of their lives back.

In that case they should provide their C of O.
Those who got resettled at Maroko are now mostly living at Ajah.
Maroko people are indigenes, are the people of Makoko indigenes?.

7lives:
This is the way they turn bar beach to nonsense until the federal government took over.
Those shanties are mostly dens of criminals.
A good riddance to a bad rubbish.

I am telling you.....den of criminals....

From what I heard Ilaje around Ebute meta west will also be demolished........That Ilaje is something else....drugs , under age prostitution , extortion and under criminal activities......
Dirts, faeces everywhere......

When will they commence cleaning the dirty water bodies

tommy589:
Government should make better arrangement for them than they did Maroko people.
Makoko is some Lagosians ancestral home.It is the only home they know.No one with enough money would want to rent a home there,some resort to live their temporarily until they pick the broken bits and pieces of their lives back.

The government will resettle those who is entitled to it......I visited that environment several times......

.but majority of them got no business living there......

Makes no sense to me. The money spent on reclaiming land ....as if that place was once dry land ...can be used to set up a low cost community on dry land then relocate the residents ... demolish the shanties and allow nature to take its course. If the area is sand filled .... much more will have to be spent on infrastructure development and maintenance....especially drainage. They need to look at alternatives.

Biodun556:
I hope Makoko people will agree to settle on the ground rather shore lines

There is nothing wrong with living on shoreline just make it beautiful and safe .

Sleekfingers:
The government will resettle those who is entitled to it......I visited that environment several times......

.but majority of them got no business living there......

I feel for them..Having lived in similar environments as a runaway kid

Ground kee? They're going to send them packing to nowhere. A plot there is going to be sold for a princely sum of #1b

Biodun556:
I hope Makoko people will agree to settle on the ground rather shore lines

creolehunt:
The penchant to landfill the water is really distressing.

What happened to cleaning up and repurposing the shoreline to create beautiful scenery

Makoko is beyond cleaning! Like it wouldn’t make sense. They need to move the residents out to a more conducive environment.

tommy589:
I feel for them..Having lived in similar environments as a runaway kid

Well , I feel for some of them......I mean those that are really in need of help there....
Years ago I used to take food and other basic essentials there with my daughter, during her and my birthday........

Biodun556:
I hope Makoko people will agree to settle on the ground rather shore lines

Were they settling on the sky before?
They are fishermen and have been there before Lagos was made a state.

What should be done is to move them somewhere in Ikorodu or Epe with access to the Lagoon and close to the Lagos State food hub being constructed.

Then, decent housing should be built on a rent to own basis. That way, everyone would be happy.

This nonsense Lagos is doing is what they wanted to do to the indigenous areas of the Ibeju Lekki for the Dangote project. It was when they brought Mopol to chase them and the MD of LFTZ was killed that they were forced to go back to the roundtable.

Is like after that white man video that was trending Lagos government brain con resets

Biodun556:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pdk6TKGiy4?si=3b2aenc28wioMY4c

I hope Makoko people can afford it... After Government Dredge the Land for them...

That's when you hear... Real estate people say ₦200M per square meter...

Instead of Sand-filling, I expected them to repackage the place to be similar to Venice.

Ushman333:
Without going into details, if you understand security, you will understand what I mean. Like I said they should be compensated, compensation should be basic rate of the property they presently occupy...like I said government should avoid demolition unless it's absolutely necessary because of the huge housing deficit in Lagos... demolition leads to further scarcity and discourage other investors that want to go into real estate investment business.

since you understand security, you ended up not answering the question on security or any other question I asked.

1. how is Makoko shanty town a security risk?

2. which area does it occupy and how is it not befitting to the area?

3. if you say LASG is "opening up" Makoko shanty town, was it closed before?

4. what amount of compensation can be given to these settlers that will make up for their being displaced from a place they called home?

5. how is sand filling this water body good for the environment?

Sleekfingers:
The shoreline belongs to the governor. And they choose to do whatever with it or chase those illegal occupants......

which portion of the constitution says that the shoreline "belongs to the governor"?

who are the "they"?

why should they agree to settle on the ground rather than shore lines?

did they not see ground before they chose to settle on shore line?

is it by force to settle on ground?

Xilsbridalhouse:
Makoko is beyond cleaning! Like it wouldn’t make sense. They need to move the residents out to a more conducive environment.

how is Makoko "beyond cleaning"?

did you attempt cleaning it?

is it sand filling that will make sense?

shegz24:
Instead of Sand-filling, I expected them to repackage the place to be similar to Venice.

Venice built by oyibo is sinking but Makoko built on wood by fishermen is not sinking

Money go finish here. They should resettle the occupants and clean up the place

7lives:
Rada rada, the sand filling that created Eko Atlantic didn't create any ecological disaster, na Makoko own go create problem.
Una sha must display una ignorance.

Did you see how Ahamadu Bello, Ademola Adetokunbo, Tiamyu Salvage, Okoawo were flooded.

Sleekfingers:
Why would my family build in that dump site? My family houses are on Lagos Island Why would any sane person build shanties on government properties? I am talking about those living around the shorelines and on water.
That's how they did in Maroko , before Governor Raji Rasak chase them out.........Jakande wanted to do it. But he couldn't,.....

As a a matter of fact, Ilaje in Ebute meta ( west) will also be cleared .. they have already sent them eviction notice, but they are still showing coconut heads........

Your problem is that you lack empathy and out of touch with reality for the people that currently stay there. They are humans too even though they are poor.

I bet you can't even afford to own a piece of land in the estates that would be built on the reclaimed land.

Land is expensive in lagos because it has finished na old house people they buy to rebuild

Reason some location line ikoyi price is so high

Acekidc4:
My Lagos. Kudos to that

Kudos? Dey play. When flooding will begin to deal with them you will now know.
The greedy politicians want land at all cost.
It's not about the poor people of Makoko, it's about greed for land by the corrupt elite.
Why not create an aquatic ecosystem for the people of Makoko to improve their livelihood?
No! Theyll rather eject them and sandfill for themselves.

Stolen:
WHETHER DEM DEY RECLAIM OR RETAIN, THE PROPER THING IS TO FIRST REHOUSE THOSE PEOPLE ON LAND BEFORE DEMOLITION.


OTHERWISE LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY ARE, SO U DONT CAUSE PROBLEM OF THIEF AND STREET BURNING OF DESPERATE HUMANS, THEY ARE ALREADY IN A BAD SITUATION, DONT MAKE IT WORST.



DEMON!

the matter weak me

Sleekfingers:
The last time I checked, there are 36 states in Nigeria....they can move to any other State, if they can't rent an apartment.

That place is a complete mess. Allowing some people to be calling Lagos a slum

So if someone comes and tells you to move from the family land that’s been with your family for generations you will just get up and go?

Some of you. Sense and empathy is far far away.

lexy2014:
is Makoko sinking?

In case you didn’t know. Yes it was that’s what the dredging is for.

I swear to God the Chinese that made the phone available to you people should have included sense with the package