{"id":25875,"date":"2024-04-04T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=25875"},"modified":"2024-04-04T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:23:00","slug":"lagos-residents-demand-compensation-for-demolished-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/04\/lagos-residents-demand-compensation-for-demolished-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"LAGOS: Residents Demand Compensation for Demolished Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Residents of Oke-Egan Community in Eleko, Ajah, Lagos State, protested at the state House of Assembly complex demanding compensation for the demolition of their homes. Armed with banners and placards conveying their grievances, the residents barricaded the main gate of the Lagos House early Wednesday, highlighting their plight and loss of shelter. Dr. Taiwo Alalade, speaking on behalf of the protesters, lamented the demolition of her family&#8217;s four buildings, leaving them homeless and without recourse. Pastor Abiodun Ajayi echoed similar sentiments, expressing frustration at the lack of prior notice and the loss of belongings due to the demolitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Majority Leader of the House, Noheem Adams, and his colleagues addressed the protesters, acknowledging their peaceful conduct and assuring them that their grievances would be presented to the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. They pledged to take appropriate action to address the residents&#8217; concerns and provide relief. The Lagos State Government&#8217;s recent demolition of houses deemed non-compliant with state regulations, and those obstructing drainage channels, underscores the ongoing tension between authorities and residents over urban development and housing issues in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Oke-Egan Community in Eleko, Ajah, Lagos State, protested at the state House of Assembly complex demanding compensation for the demolition of their homes. Armed with banners and placards conveying their grievances, the residents barricaded the main gate of the Lagos House early Wednesday, highlighting their plight and loss of shelter. Dr. Taiwo Alalade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":25877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25890,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions\/25890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}