Residents of Abule Oki and nine other adjoining communities in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, in old Alimosho LGA, Thursday, staged a peaceful protest to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode's office and the state House of Assembly, Alausa, Ikeja, over an alleged abandoned Aboru, lower Akinola canal/Arigbanla-Abattoir channel dredging and concrete lining project.
Claiming that the abandoned project had claimed the lives of about 500 community members, the worried residents appealed for urgent state government intervention. According to them, the non-completion of the concrete lining of the Arigbanla canal has exposed them to danger, leaving them at the mercy of a deluge of flood which at its peak often rises up to nine feet, submerging and destroying lives and property.
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