Lagos State Task Force Begins Demolition of #OtodoGbame Community as Residents Flee for Safety | One Death Reported

According to multiple reports on Twitter, the Lagos State Task Force have begun demolition of Otodo Gbame, a fishing community in the outskirts of the Lekki area of the state.

This is coming after residents were sent packing owing to what the state government termed environmental crisis.

Reports say police officers were shooting at residents as they flee their “houses” which is being burnt by the state government.

Social media comments added that one Daniel Aya was shot on the neck and died.

The community had dragged the state government to court after Governor Akinwunmi Ambode gave the order in October 2016.

Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of a Lagos State High Court in a January 26, 2017 ruling, said that both parties should explore out of court settlement, adding that “the eviction/threat of forcible eviction of any citizen from his home at short notice and without any immediate alternative accommodation or sufficient opportunity to arrange for such alternative accommodation before being evicted from his current abode totally undignifying and certainly inhuman, cruel and degrading….”

LIVE VIDEO: Police & Task Force entered water to pursue people in boats – firing tear gas! @Mo_Adebayo @ayosogunro @bettyabah @meganschapman pic.twitter.com/AIA34reeRa

— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017

Lagos State Task Force climbing in and out of structures on water to light each one on fire #OtodoGbame pic.twitter.com/vGGZMowZxU

— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017

Please Tag all the celebrities that endorsed Abode, babies are going to sleep in canoes under the cold open skies tonight #OtodoGbame pic.twitter.com/OpYafaid1H

— FILMMAKER?? (@DirectorSolomon) April 9, 2017

#OtodoGbame Update: “we’re still here on top of water, when we go close to land the police shoot at us, we have no where to go” pic.twitter.com/YwvA4TlZCf

— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017

@channelstv @CNN @BBCWorld @CableNewsNG @PremiumTimesng @MobilePunch, thousands #OtodoGbame pple stil hostage on Lagos lagoon on govt order pic.twitter.com/SaCGzWfRSt

— Betty Abah (@bettyabah) April 9, 2017

Marine Police stationed at Ikate are firing ammunition at fleeing boats — bullets hitting water all over the place #OtodoGbame

— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017

Women, children, begging for @AkinwunmiAmbode @followlasg mercy. #OtodoGbame pic.twitter.com/e1InfYEKAR

— JEI | #OtodoGbame (@justempower) April 9, 2017