A member of the House of Representatives from Ogun State, Mr. Abiodun Akinlade, on Wednesday criticised the state government over the ongoing demolition of about 100 houses in some parts of the state.

Akinlade, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Science and Technology, said the demolition was done without human face as many families were displaced.

The lawmaker, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the Labour Party, said what he expected the government to do was to resettle the victims and compensate them before pulling down their houses.

The government had commenced the demolition to open up roads in the state but Akinlade told reporters in Abuja that while he was not against road construction, those affected by the demolition should have been compensated first.

He said, Any government policy that brings peoples shelter down without first making provision for an alternative and also compensating them appropriately in the name of road construction, is by all standard, an anti-people policy.

While it is agreed that the Ojodu/Alagbole/Ijoko Road is long overdue for reconstruction, I think the state government needs to understand that in every democracy, the people come first.

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ALSTONVILLE is gearing up for its 125th annual show, which kicks off on Friday, and there are plenty of activities to look forward to.

For the first time in its history, the show will feature the LJ Gray Demolition Derby from 6pm on Saturday night.

Rebecca Lock from the show society said LJ Gray was a local speedway driver who had decided to "take up the challenge" of running the demolition derby.

"He will be driving one of the cars, and his dad, sister and one of his mates will be in the other cars," she said.

"I think this event will be a real crowd pleaser.

"They have gone to a lot of effort with this and it will be fantastic.

"Hopefully we can have a demolition derby every year at the show from now on."

One of the cars that is taking part in the demolition derby will be on display this week at the old Mitre 10 shop in the Alstonville Plaza.

Alstonville Agricultural Society president, Bob Wilson, said preparations for the 125th show were going well, and he said it would be one of the biggest and best.

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Its official: the demolition of 56 units at Carver Courts will begin Nov. 13.

The Kinston Housing Authority recently awarded the bid to Central Builders out of Rocky Mount, who will do the job for $382,382.

The demolition is slated to be finished on Feb. 10, to provide more parking and open up more lanes to travel in and out of Carver Courts.

Were giving them 90 days from the start of the contract, KHA Executive director Rhonda Abbott said. There are a lot of things that have to be done, including permits and having asbestos removed. Were not starting until Nov. 13.

Carver Courts, which was originally built in 1952, currently has 28 buildings. Central Builders will remove 10 to provide less congestion to residents.

One resident, Curtis Fields, is in favor of the demolition.

Theyre just trying to make additional parking, Fields said. It should be OK, and it will give more residents decent parking spots.

Abbott said the demolition shouldnt affect traffic much in the area.

The trucks will be coming from the Shine Street side, Abbott said. Bright Street usually sees more traffic, so we decided to have them do demolition on the other side.

Safety is also important, as the buildings will also be roped off and Central Builders will be cautious when it comes to the remaining residents of Carver Courts.

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October 22, 2013 by Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta 2 Comments

Scenes of the demolition at Yakoyo ...on Monday. | credits: Goke Famadewa and Samson Folarin.

Reactions have continued to trail Mondays demolition of over 100 houses and the displacement of hundreds of residents of Ojodu/Alagbole, Yakoyo and Ijoko in Ifo Local Government by the Ogun State Government to pave the way for the ongoing road expansion projects in the communities.

On Tuesday in Abeokuta, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party and a former Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr. Sina Kawonise, disagreed with the ruling All Progressives Congress over the demolition exercise. While the PDP, LP and Kawonise condemned the demolition exercise, the APC argued that it was being done for the sake of developing the state in the interest of all the citizens.

The APC also argued that compensation was already being worked out for genuine property owners in the affected areas. The state PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr. Waliu Oladipo, said the action of the APC-led government came to the opposition party as a shock. He said, This government is unconscionable. And like we have been saying our people were literally tricked into buying wares in the dark. How can a government whose primary responsibility should be the welfare of the people be inflicting untold hardship on them without any care? This is simply wicked and totally uncalled for.

The LP state Secretary, Sunday Oginni, said the Amosun administrations penchant for stealing had pushed it into destroying peoples property in order to make claims for the compensations it would never pay.

In the same vein, Kawonise said a situation, where the state government would always put tears on the faces of the people of the state in the name of executing development projects was not acceptable.

But the APC State Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Sola Lawal accused the opposition parties and Kawonise of making self-serving criticisms of the Amosun administrations programmes.

Lawal stressed that the Amosun government was only making efforts to carry out the imperative transformation which the previous administration shied away from.

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Scenes of the demolition at Yakoyo ...on Monday. | credits: Goke Famadewa and Samson Folarin.

Reactions have continued to trail Mondays reported demolition of over 100 houses and the displacement of hundreds of residents of Ojodu/Alagbole, Yakoyo and Ijoko by the Ogun State Government to pave the way for the state ongoing road expansion projects.

On Tuesday in Abeokuta, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party disagreed with the ruling All Progressives Congress over the exercise.

While the PDP and LP condemned the exercise, the APC argued that it was being done for the sake of developing the state in the interest of all the citizens. The APC also argued that compensation was already being worked out for genuine property owners in the affected areas.

According to the opposition parties, the exercise lacked a human face because aside from its failure to give the affected residents adequate notice to quit, the state government did not put in place a resettlement plan before pulling down the houses and displacing the people of the areas.

The Publicity Secretary of the state chapter of the PDP, Mr. Waliu Oladipo, said the action of the APC-led government came to the opposition party as a shock.

The PDP wondered why the Governor Ibikunle Amosun administration, which it alleged had been unable to complete the road expansion projects it had embarked upon in some other parts of the state, would go ahead in carrying out further demolition of buildings for the same purpose.

Similarly, the LP in the state described the demolition of structures in the Ijoko and Akute areas of the state by the government as a deliberate infringement on the rights of the people under the pretext of carrying out urban development.

The party State Secretary, Sunday Oginni, said the Amosun administrations penchant for stealing had pushed it into destroying peoples property in order to make claims for the compensations it would never pay.

But the APC State Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Sola Lawal, accused the opposition parties of making self-serving criticisms of the Amosun administrations programmes.

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One of the dismantled graves where a corpse was exhumed at Ijoko | credits: Samson Folarin

Many graves have been reportedly dismantled and their corpses exhumed in Ijoko, Ifo Local Government, Ogun State, in the ongoing demolition exercise of the state government.

Residents told PUNCH Metro that the number was expected to rise as the state continued to take down houses in its road expansion project.

PUNCH Metro had, on Tuesday, reported the demolition of several buildings and structures along the Yakoyo/Alagbole road and the Ijoko/Sango areas by the Ogun State Government. The demolition was said to be have been carried out in preparation for the expansion of the said roads.

Our correspondent gathered that while some of the corpses had been interred for as long as 30 years, a few were said to have been in the graves for about eight years or less.

PUNCH Metro counted three of such exhumed graves when our correspondent visited Ijoko.

The families of the deceased were said to have taken the exhumed corpses to unknown destinations.

A commercial motorcyclist, who identified himself as Ahmed Samora, said he was paid to lift the corpses of a couple from their grave.

He said, I was called to bring out the corpses. They were still fresh and they were husband and wife. The two were buried within an orthodox church that was affected by the demolition exercise. I saw their family members take them to the family house.

He said there were so many corpses within the area because it was the habit of residents to bury their dead in their compound.

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