by Dolapo Adelana
Early this morning, men of the Lagos State Task Force and the police reportedly on the orders of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and the state’s commissioner for environment stormed, Otodo Gbame a riverine community.
A Twitter user, @justempower says the invasion of the community has left at least one person dead while majority of the residents are stranded on the water.
See tweets below:
SOS: Since 6am, police have raided #OtodoGbame & shooting tear gas, chasing everyone onto water, houses/properties set on fire @ayosogunro
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
HAPPENING NOW: Houses set on fire this AM, people all fleeing in boats, police shooting tear gas #OtodoGbame #LagosAt50 #LagosDemolitions pic.twitter.com/6BMhbwmAjU
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
HAPPENING NOW: Police monitor as houses are set on fire, people flee in boats from #OtodoGbame #LandGrab #LagosFailureStory #LagosAt50 pic.twitter.com/uhBwZjf0Ds
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Refugees in boats at #OtodoGbame with nowhere to go. Police in blue speedboat tell them to leave. Where are they supposed to go? #LagosAt50 pic.twitter.com/BfTlbLNLTX
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
BREAKING: @justempower staff on ground, at least 50-60 police, 3 Black Marias, lots of people locked in Black Maria #OtodoGbame #LandGrab
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Officers in charge confirm they are on order from @AkinwunmiAmbode & Lagos State Commiss'r of Environment #OtodoGbame #LandGrab #LagosAt50 https://t.co/JThMiqdpqG
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
UPDATE: police singing, bringing kerosene, setting homes on fire #OtodoGbame #LandGrab #LagosAt50 @RemiAdekoya1 @ayosogunro @toluogunlesi
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Police setting buildings on fire with kerosene, chasing people out of #OtodoGbame, ~30 gunshots just heard by @justempower staff #LagosAt50 pic.twitter.com/maBN5ptYjF
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
An eyewitness account of Sunday’s rampage
VIDEO: #OtodoGbame evictee Kunnu Paul — "Lagos State Task Force entered our community, shooting, started burning our houses" @ayosogunro pic.twitter.com/uwevdnfZm8
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Residents stranded as they watch their houses burn
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people in boats on water in #OtodoGbame – @justempower heard OC shout that the whole place must burn #LagosAt50 pic.twitter.com/J0xzpNaS6m
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
#OtodoGbame — all residents chased into Lagoon, stranded in boats between Orange Island and a police boat blockade. Nowhere to go. pic.twitter.com/W1nuKpH6wD
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
#OtodoGbame residents watch their homes being lit on FIRE by Lagos State Task Force pic.twitter.com/jED0XFfDMj
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
LIVE: #OtodoGbame refugees float in boats while Lagos Task Force sets their homes on fire @MaggieFick @StephanieBusari @stephhegarty @sdinet pic.twitter.com/sVVLlsNUFB
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
#OtodoGbame refugees in their own city #NoJusticeForThePoor pic.twitter.com/rKe4mwyrJh
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
LIVE: Children, women, families in boats watch as their homes are set ablaze by their govern't #OtodoGbame #LagosAt50 #Impunity @MaggieFick pic.twitter.com/8jpv5KbFzX
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
LISTEN & WATCH: A pregnant woman poles a boat with all material possessions, shots heard in background #OtodoGbame @KadariaAhmed @ayosogunro pic.twitter.com/k88gvGKQqa
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Women, children, begging for @AkinwunmiAmbode @followlasg mercy. #OtodoGbame pic.twitter.com/e1InfYEKAR
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
#OtodoGbame is under ATTACK. pic.twitter.com/VM3dOTwjeY
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Thousands of #OtodoGbame evictees in boats on Lagos Lagoon — driven out by fire and guns, now battling rain. No where to go! pic.twitter.com/SlIjATFVVH
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
A young man shot in the neck (GRAPHIC IMAGES)
Warning, video is graphic, man just shot in the neck being taken to speedboat — how many lives must be lost & destroyed for Lagos megacity? https://t.co/xXUdMtxpDt
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
LIVE: A young man Daniel Aya just shot in the neck in #OtodoGbame @KadariaAhmed @Makmid @RemiAdekoya1 @stephhegarty @MaggieFick @Mo_Adebayo pic.twitter.com/fFH3Zsxnrt
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
He did not survive the gunshot
BREAKING / GRAPHIC: Daniel Aya did not make it, he has just died — how many lives must be lost in #OtodoGbame to satisfy greed? @MaggieFick pic.twitter.com/wCpYzKUptF
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Another young man with bullet wounds caused by stray bullets
Monday Idowu, bullet wounds to his chest from sporadic police shooting #OtodoGbame pic.twitter.com/AB78AxWF7V
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
The LASG is creating an Internally Displaced Persons crisis
Government-made IDP crisis in the heart of #Lagos #Nigeria#OtodoGbame pic.twitter.com/LXGOTRQJ8Q
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Even toddlers are left to suffer
Baby wrapped in plastic to protect it from the rain. #OtodoGbame residents trapped in boats on Lagos Lagoon. SOS! pic.twitter.com/0RdybwNJiu
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
And the destruction continues
Lagos State Task Force using canoes to reach houses on water, dousing them with kerosene and lighting them on fire #OtodoGbame
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Caterpillar now in #OtodoGbame demolishing remnants of structures on land #SaveTheWaterfronts
— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017
Governor Ambode is this the way to go? Pathetic!
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