Displacement & Dignity: Otodo Gbame and other forced Evictions

It will be recalled that the threat to the Lagos waterfronts began when Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode announced to the media on 9 October 2016 the Government’s intention to “start demolishing all shanties on waterfronts across the State within 7 days,” citing recent kidnapping incidents as the purported justification. Based on mapping and profiling…