Women from the Ilaje community in Lagos State have threatened to embark on nude demonstrations to protest what they described as the persistent destruction of their ancestral settlements.
On Tuesday, despite heavy rainfall, hundreds of protesters under the banner of Egbe Omo Ilaje marched to the Lagos State House of Assembly in Alausa, Ikeja, calling on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Speaker Mudashiru Obasa to intervene urgently.
The protesters, who carried placards, accused some traditional rulers in the state of allegedly acting as “land grabbers” and orchestrating the demolition of Ilaje communities.
One of the elderly protesters, who identified herself as Ifagbemi, vowed that she and other women were prepared to stage a nude protest at the palaces of the monarchs involved if the government failed to take decisive action.
The President-General of Egbe Omo Ilaje Worldwide, Rafael Irowainu, accused certain monarchs of exploiting the name of President Bola Tinubu to justify unlawful demolitions.
He said, “Some royal fathers have abandoned their duty of upholding justice and turned themselves into land grabbers. They falsely claim that President Tinubu sent them, but we know he did not. These actions are fraudulent and lawless.”
He alleged that some of the monarchs fueling the crisis were not even indigenes of Lagos but hailed from Osun and Ekiti states.
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