Nigeria: thousands of evictees suffer homelessness and loss of livehood after Ijora Badia forced evictions

Spaces for Change released a press release on the situation of thousands of evictees suffering homelessness and loss of livehood after Ijora Badia forced evictions.

Friends of Badia East from across the civil society have come together to strongly condemn the forced evictions that began in Badia East, Lagos State, on 18 September 2015. Once again, thousands of families have been rendered homeless at the peak of torrential rainfall, leaving scores of women and children to sleep under makeshift shelters at the demolition site. The heavy rains that fell throughout the Eid-el-Kabir (Sallah) holiday highlighted the misery of homelessness.

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