Makoko is one of Nigeria's best known slums. Many residents are fishermen and some have migrated from neighbouring Togo, Chad, Benin, Niger and Ghana.
A letter was served by the Lagos state government on residents last week, giving them 72 hours to vacate their properties arguing that "their unwholesome structures on the waterfront amounted to an environmental nuisance". "Notice is hereby given to you to vacate and remove all illegal developments along the Makoko/Iwaya Waterfront within 72 hours," said the letter from the Lagos state ministry of waterfront, infrastructure and development.
The Makoko settlement is divided between land-based and waterfront areas, with the inland residents not affected by the demolitions. Life on the lagoon is made possible by wooden canoes which serve as the only transportation means on the water front areas.
The demolition that continues today has left thousands of residents homeless.
You will remember that In 2010, BBC produced a documentary it tittled "Welcome to Lagos" http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2010/04/welcome-to-lagos-itll-defy-you.shtml which reported particularly about life on the above mentioned slum; a documentary that provoked both the Lagos state and the Nigerian governments.
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