Lagos State House of Assembly has adopted the recommendations of its standing committee on rules and business concerning the demolition exercise carried out in Makoko, Oko-Agbon and Sogunro communities, making them the official resolution of the House.

The resolution followed a petition addressed to the Speaker, Dr Mudashiru Obasa, titled: “Urgent Appeal Regarding Ongoing Mass Forced Eviction and Illegal Demolition Threatening Tens of Thousands in Makoko, Oko-Agbon and Sogunro Communities.”

Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Business, Noheem Adams, while presenting the report during plenary at the Committee of the Whole, said that the committee arrived at its conclusions after engaging the petitioners in five separate meetings and conducting an oversight visit with relevant government officials, agencies, and representatives of the affected communities.

The committee, therefore, recommended that the government should relocate the remaining residents of Makoko, Sogunro and Oko-Agbon to a proposed low-cost housing estate to be constructed in the Agbowa area of the state, where they can continue their fishing activities.

In addition, the committee advised that the government should involve the Oloto of the Otto family in the construction of the water city project, recognising them as the original owners of the land.