Rivers
Tenants Union Backs Planned Waterfronts Demolition
National Union of Tenants of Nigeria has backed the Rivers State Government over the planned demolition of some water fronts in Port Harcourt city.
Executive Secretary of the union, Ceasar Enwefoh who stated the union position in an interview with the Tide in Port Harcourt also critczed some non Government organization for making money from the plight of the water front dwellers.
Enwefoh said far from what some of the NGOs are doing there is no law protesting slum dwellers in Nigeria.
He said the water front have become a den of criminals and Illegal oil bunkering.
There is no provision in Nigeria that protect slum dwellers. It is only at international level but the protection is not absolute because the same United Nations instrument that said don’t demolish it is the same law that introduce what we call safer city and city without slum.
So when we are coming to advocate against slum demolition we try to make the truth crime and safer city and people that are homeless we try to compare the gravity.
So when we try to look at it actually find that yes absolute majority of crime committed in port Harcourt are always on water front he said.
He however pleaded with the government to extend the time for which those in the affected areas were given to evaluate the slum.
Enwefoh also warned the slum dwellers against allowing civil society groups to demonstrate for them as the groups are using item to make money.
By: John Bibor & Oribim Ibama
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