Lagos Set To Send Out Ajegunle Flood Victims From Camp

The Lagos State Government is set to send out the 1,019 victims of Ajegunle flood disaster from its relief camp at Agbowa, Epe, Lagos.

Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr. Tola Kasali, disclosed this last week, saying that the state government was considering disengaging the flood victims from the camp later next month.

“We are making arrangement for the disengagement plan by the end of June,” he said, adding that the victims had spent over seven months in the camp and government had to send them out of the camp.

“The relief camp currently accommodates 1,019 internally displaced people (IDP), evacuated from the flood disaster on Ikorodu axis of the state. Among the IDP evacuated are 48 pregnant women, who are presently in the camp and out which we have had 15 deliveries without any complication including a set of twins.

“The population statistics at the relief camp show that persons aged between 0 and five years are 256; six to 10 years, 165; 11 to 17, 178 and 18 years and above, 420,” he said.

He, however, said government had found a land in Ikorodu where residents of Ajegunle would be relocated before the state government would demolish the area.

According to him, the issue of relocation involved landlords who had refused to leave the area but noted that government would not evacuate them until the parcel of land in Ikorodu is developed.

“Government is working tirelessly on this. We have found a place in Ikorodu where we will build houses for them. We are dealing with landlords in this area of relocation and a committee has been set up on this.

“Until we have secured the Ikorodu land, it is impossible for us to move them out of that place. Government will soon come out with a research programme for the people. The area is disaster-prone,” he stated.

On the ministry’s on-line data bank register specially designed as an interactive web portal to capture details of unemployed people by posting their CV’s and areas of interest of employment on the internet, Kasali said over 300,000 people had visited the job site, while over 11,592 job seekers had advertised their curriculum vitae.