Several policemen and
women living in Police Barracks, Apapa, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria,
including their wives and children have been rendered homeless.
It was learnt
that the police officers and their families were thrown out of the barracks due
to the ongoing demolition of shanties at the barracks.
It was gathered that
the police officers were evicted following the directive of the Police
Commissioner in charge of the Port Authority Command, Sherifat
Disu-Olajoku. The most affected officers were those serving under the state
Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko.
According to police
sources, Disu gave 10 day-notice to the officers to move out of the barracks
but before Manko could intervene and the deadline could expire, it was alleged
that the affected officers with their families were evicted from the barracks.
When our reporter
visited the barracks Monday, wives of the affected officers and their children
were seen weeping while moving their properties out of the barracks in
mini trucks.
Some of the wives of
the evicted officers who did not want their names mentioned lamented that they
were not given enough time to move their properties out of the barracks let
alone given the chance to look for alternative accommodations.
“It was last week
they gave us notice to move out of the barracks. The moment we were notified,
we started making efforts to meet Sherifat and Manko through Police Officers’
Wives Association, POWA, to seek for more time. But we woke up one day only to
see that they had brought caterpillar machines to demolish and destroy our
properties,” one of the officers’ wives alleged.
Another wife of one
of the affected officers said her husband went on an official assignment
when she and her children were thrown out of the barracks.
The woman said she
was confused and had no place to go with her children because the eviction was
too sudden for her to make an alternative arrangement for accomodation.
She lamented that her
children have not been able to go to school since the eviction.
Some of the affected
officers, who were yet to remove their properties out of the barracks,
expressed their anger against the police command for the sudden eviction.
According to some of
them, what had been done to them was unfair as they were not given adequate
time to look for alternative accommodations before they were thrown out of the
barracks.
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I don't blm police comnmissioner u take good action pls sir let ur good work reach ijora olopa police barrack is falling. If u don't do now nigeria will still put the blm on u
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