No fewer than 200 structures were burnt on Wednesday in
Otodo Gbame, an Egun community in the Lekki Phase 1 area of Lagos State, during
a clash between some Egun and Yoruba youths.
It was gathered that the crisis started on Sunday, when
the Yoruba youths demanded that the residents should relocate from the area.
It was learnt that the Egun community insisted that
residents would not leave their houses, tagging the youths as hoodlums and land
grabbers.
Crisis came to a head on
Wednesday when the Yoruba youths set fire to the structures in the area at
about 8am.
The action was said to have triggered a clash between the
youths of the Egun community and their Yoruba counterparts.
Two persons were said to have been injured during the clash,
while the area was quickly deserted as the fire raged. Some residents
reportedly salvaged their property from the fire and fled.
It was learnt that policemen from the Rapid Response Squad,
the Maroko division and the Area J Command, Ajah, went to the area to restore
normalcy.
A policeman on the team said an abandoned two-day-old baby
was rescued from one of the burning structures.
He said, “When the structures were set ablaze, the mother
and the father of the baby fled. It was the cry of the baby that drew the
attention of policemen to that room. The baby was locked inside the house. The
baby was rescued and reunited with her parents.”
“Nobody was killed, but about three persons were injured.
The entire community was razed.”
Source:Punch Ng
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