No fewer than 1,000 residents and owners of structures marked for demolition due to the Ibadan Circular Road project today staged a peaceful protest to call the attention of the government to their plight.
It would be recalled that the government had, last Tuesday, commenced demolition of some structures close to the circular road in the council areas.
According to The PUNCH, children, women and aged ones wielded different placards with various inscriptions such as, “Governor Makinde, please come to our aid,” “No more Circular Corridor,” “Mr. Governor, don’t kill us,” amongst others.
Scores of structures including residential houses, churches, mosques, among others have been demolished with over 1,000 additional property already marked for demolition within the local government areas.
The affected communities are Fashade, Aba Osho, Igbalefa, Adigbe, and Badeku.
Others are Akamo, Alase, Ojoku, Dare, Isase, Oleke Meji as well as Ogido with the two council areas.
The inscription on the placards read “Governor Seyi Makinde, please come to our aid”, “No more Circular corridor”, “Mr Governor don’t kill us”, “Circular Road Corridor is a massacre”, “No more 150metres set back”, “Let’s have peace of mind”, “Ijoba ewo wa laanu se.
