The Oworo Youth Forum has appealed to international cooperation agencies to halt all ongoing climate action initiatives conducted in collaboration with the Lagos State government and particularly with the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that residents of Oworonshoki in the Kosofe local government area on Saturday held a protest to register their grievances and plight over Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s continued demolition of their houses, without providing them with alternative shelters.
The residents, according to videos seen by SaharaReporters, carried various placards as they marched along the streets with the cards bearing various inscriptions, “Let us breathe, stop the demolition” “Our future is being truncated, stop the demolition” “No to Land grabbing” and “Don’t get elected to get us evicted.”
SaharaReporters had reported how residents of Oworonshoki and Idi Araba communities in the Kosofe and Mushin local government areas of the state were thrown into lamentation in July as Governor Sanwo-Olu’s administration embarked on the demolition.
The Oworo Youths Forum in a release on Saturday by Ogunlami Opeyemi said the call on international agencies to suspend their cooperation with the state government “stems from the Ministry’s failure to fulfil its fundamental obligation of safeguarding the environment, biodiversity, and the inhabitants of Lagos.”