Despair as Lagos neighbourhood razed for planned highway
The Peninsula
Lagos: Ebuka Gbuzue pulled everything he could from his family s small home in Lagos before demolition crews came to destroy it. This week the loca...
Lagos: Ebuka Gbuzue pulled everything he could from his family's small home in Lagos before demolition crews came to destroy it.
This week the local government began a huge operation to raze areas of the eastern Jakande district in Nigeria's economic capital and make way for a coastal mega-highway.
Gbuzue, 35, heaved mattresses and furniture into a trailer bound for the other side of the city of 20 million people, where his wife and two children had already taken shelter.
But he slept near the wreckage of his house that night because he couldn't afford to pay more for his commute to work the next day.
"We are refugees in our own country," he told AFP.
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