The forced evictions of Badia East, Lagos: ’This is not right’ | Cities | The Guardian
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Until 2013, Badia East – a small, densely populated pocket in central Lagos flanked by overhead expressways – was home to 30,000 people living in an informal housing settlement. In February of that year, 9,000 were forcibly evicted. This month the same thing happened to another 1,000 more. It is one of the largest forced evictions in the state’s history.
Their homes were demolished under the authority of the Oba Ojora, a local tribal king who has long claimed hereditary ownership of the land, previously owned by the Nigerian government. As bulldozers crashed through the neighbourhood, the residents scrambled for their belongings, most of which were crushed into rubble.