Many residents were displaced on Thursday after some government officers demolished Monkey Village in the Opebi area of Lagos State.

It was gathered that the officials stormed the area around 8am and ordered the residents to move their belongings.

PUNCH Metro learnt that some of the residents, however, lost their property to the demolition.

The displaced residents lamented that they were not given any notice before the exercise.

Our correspondent was told that Information and Community Technology tools, goods, all estimated at millions of naira, were destroyed by the armed officers.

The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, in a statement on Thursday, denied involvement in the action.

The Public Relations Officer of the agency, Adebayo Taofiq, said, “It is imperative to state categorically that the operatives of the agency were not in any way involved in the said demolition as being circulated.”

Our correspondent learnt that the exercise might have been carried out by officials of the Special Operations Unit, Governor’s Office, on the instruction of the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development.

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/residents-displaced-as-lagos-demolishes-monkey-village/

Monkey village

dem dey chop Monkey for the village ni

Lagosians deserve what they are getting now, I don't pity them at all.

, The drug addict couldn't even wait for the year to properly begin before inflicting hardship on his people, too bad they will still support his candidate come 2023. This level of Stockholm Syndrome is baffling.

Karlovich:
, The drug addict couldn't even wait for the year to properly begin before inflicting hardship on his people, too bad they will still support his candidate come 2023. This level of Stock
holm Syndrome is baffling.

obgeni who you dey talk about


abi you dey fear to call im name

Jostoman:
Lagosians deserve what they are getting now, I don't pity them at all.

what are they getting


and who send you make you pity them


who your pity help sef

Damn Too bad for them country people.

In all, it's for the development of Lagos,if you have no place to go to,please going back to your village isn't a death sentence alright. Everything's going to be fine.

Karlovich:
, The drug addict couldn't even wait for the year to properly begin before inflicting hardship on his people, too bad they will still support his candidate come 2023. This level of Stockholm Syndrome is baffling.

IPOBian, what is your business with Lagos to the extent you are throwing personal insults innapropriately ?

There is no genuine and well-meaning Lagosians who does not appreciate the damage unplanned and unapproved construction is doing to Lagos.

Most times people who put up or use these illegal constructions are given countless notices, over a long period of time, yet "they were never informed" is their standard response when the demolition team shows up.

Lagos should be supported always, not insulted, to do the right thing that benefits all users of the State regardless of whose Ox is gored.

It is a new Year. Some of you should look at yourselves and the many things you are doing wrong in your lives that I'll have a negative impact on your progress, that of your household and generations to come.

YoungboyNBA:
Damn Too bad for them country people.

In all, it's for the development of Lagos,if you have no place to go to,please going back to your village isn't a death sentence alright. Everything's going to be fine.

Thank you and God bless. Very simple situation any law-abiding and genuine Lagosians can have one opinion on alone.

Lawlessness has ruined Lagos. Yet ingrates will always compare Lagos unfavorably to London, New York, Nairobi, Joburg, Paris etc.

As if those places condone the building regulation violations Lagos has always put up with. I don't know how some people think the many slums of Lagos developed in the past but for unplanned constructions that corruption and incompetent administration allowed to fester in the first place.

Jostoman:
Lagosians deserve what they are getting now, I don't pity them at all.

People like you are a disgrace and no better an animal than the worst leaders you attack daily.

Should anyone live as we see below in Lagos? If not for the slackness of Lagos administration, should what we see below be a part of Lagos in 2020?

What is wrong with some of you and why must you taint everything with your personal bitterness, anger and frustration at things/people you hate?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKXKcHLi4yo

Let them go back to Osun where they came from.
We must clean up Lagos

Anything to send nyamiris packing to their poverty stricken region is a welcome development. Let's get rid of those fools

Monkey village is not home to anyone, if you stay at Opebi , you will understand,

It’s home for the underworld, youth goes there to get high on weed and hard drugs,

This is long overdue , kudos to lagos state govt

Ciscogod:
Monkey village is not home to anyone, if you stay at Opebi , you will understand,

It’s home for the underworld, youth goes there to get high on weed and hard drugs,

This is long overdue , kudos to lagos state govt

Same for General paint shanties at Ajah, Lekki and others across the State.

While genuine and concerned Lagosians worry about the State being overrun, especially by unchecked inward migration into Lagos , the administrators of the State don't help at all with their slack approach to ensuring illegal shanties and ghettos are not erected unchecked everywhere as is now the case today. Even Victoria Island has it's own.

candidtalk:



People like you are a disgrace and no better an animal than the worst leaders you attack daily.

Should anyone live as we see below in Lagos? If not for the slackness of Lagos administration, should what we see below be a part of Lagos in 2020?

What is wrong with some of you and why must you taint everything with your personal bitterness, anger and frustration at things/people you hate?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKXKcHLi4yo

Calm down

this is new year! try get sense!

XXXXTENTACION:
Monkey village


dem dey chop Monkey for the village ni

Our governors need to understand that development transcends building only the infrastructure of the urban places to impress people.

The rural areas must be given undivided attention to stem rural-to-urban migration. People must be encouraged to live in the villages.

Everyone shouldn't live in Lagos. Bridging the infrastructure gaps in rural communities will create opportunities in those localities and keep people in their villages.

Tinubu well done o

It's only God can resist this current government from putting people into hardship, this country needs to be always praying for Incessant.

Jungle

MONKEY village

Ciscogod:

It’s home for the underworld, youth goes there to get high on weed and hard drugs

If it's about the quoted. Then it's commendable.

It breaks my heart seeing youths waste away

Demolish and erect something modern...

XXXXTENTACION:
Monkey village


dem dey chop Monkey for the village ni

Monkeys used to inhabit those areas which of course were forests before men came.

Nawa o

Is there also a place called Monkey Village in Opebi, I thought it's located in the Maza
Maza axis