LIFEINSLUM

About four months ago, this captured was taken on the very day of this celebration. It was captured to unveil the fact that not all celebrations will make you smile and sympathize with. Some will make you pity the horrible odd and pit kind celebration people were placed of low-income background has to go through in order to be in the page of celebrating May 27. Nobody in his/her right senses will want to patronize celebrating in a very odd condition especially when May 27 was keyed to many children. Why it is inevitable for a lot of people not to avoid this even when the pocket is dry. The pressure of marking this celebration for children can’t be neglected.

June 9, 2015 was a terrible experience for families and resident in this community. It was a day like saying the world has come to an end. A day a lot of families living in the pit of poverty were highly affected. It is a day properties, shanty houses, schools in the community were all damaged and flooded respectively. It is also a day commercial activities like petty traders selling in this community, commuters plying this road, has to find an alternative to resolve this environmental hazard experience. Again, it is a day resident of poor shanty life in the community, prays for their gods to

Nobody will ever believe that people are still living in an environment like this, in a country like Nigeria with abundant resources where the government has ruled out anything connected to make life wear smile in the faces of the wretched. But because of the ugly nature of life, people have no choice to choose than to continue to live under a terrible condition, forcing them to adapt life in the first instance what is very horrible in outlook. The issue of ‘choice’ brings to mind the graphic nature of how millions of families in this country

The memory of this picture reminds me of the experience of people living in this community, who in their everyday life struggle to bear the brunt that tear their flesh. It was a day that lives to be told the shock of the experience of what the eyes saw when life was hit like storm without a notice. With the excuse of the government of Lagos State on road constructions in the ghetto community,

Life in Slums: ANOTHER INCREMENT: A strangle neck for the poor : Since the inception of PSP, the local government has always argued that is the best, functional and cheaper means to

Since the inception of PSP, the local government has always argued that is the best, functional and cheaper means to sanitize and maintain the Ajegunle environment. But the reality on ground is that, the government of Karmal-Fatai Ajidagba has been using it to extremely tax the people even though they claim the levy is small: #100:00 per room every month. Inasmuch, the levy is small, the poor class still grumbles bitterly over it, because the latter felt that the government is over-charging them and also, have decided not to be effective in their social responsibility in the community by providing social amenities with the public resources under local government management and control.

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