Lagos Embarks On Resettlement Camps Projects

As part of efforts to live to its social responsibility, the
Lagos State Government, has embarked on the construction of projects that will
deliver more resettlement camps in the state.

The major reason for embarking on the project, it has
gathered, is to reduce the rate of displaced and homeless people on the streets
of the metropolis.

Victims of natural disasters within the state had increased
in  recent time hence the need for more
resettlement camps.

These camps are to be built in three senatorial districts of
the state: Ikorodu, Apapa and Igando where homeless and displaced people will
be camped for some months, pending when they will be resettled.

Already, the state had completed Ikorodu project
construction.

According to Mr. Egberongbe Tope, the state had embarked on
these projects to cater for the displaced citizens in the case of fire disaster
or flood.

Tope, who is an engineer with a construction company NEESARM
Construction International, further stated that the government does not have
the intention of giving the displaced homes but to reduce the rate of
homelessness as a result of the disasters, by keeping and providing for their
basic needs without payment of rents.

“It is not necessarily only for 9 months. It depends on the
type of disaster that happens. If it is something the people can not handle in
nine months, the government will just have to extend their stay, he noted.