UN HABITAT 2014 IN ADDIS ABABA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GLOBAL LAND TOOL NETWORK TAG SECURING LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHT FOR ALL MAY I SAY THIS IS QUIET UNFORTUNATE THAT NIGERIA GOVERNMENT FAILED US IN ALL RATIFICATION READ THIS AND JUDGE In 2003,African housing ministers adopted a the Cities without Slums initiative and in2011 these same non performing housing ministers met in Rabat,Morocco to outline policies for housing and urban development across the African continent. As far as am concerned,African housing ministers include whoever is the minister for housing in Nigeria are a total failure. New slums keep emerging as population in the urban areas explode and mega housing units are only for senators and the super criminally and legally rich(legally rich are few). Often times,slums and shanties are often leveled to the ground to make way for sophisticated housing units for the upper class. The forcefully evicted slum dwellers are left without alternative arrangement. This gross insensitivity by gov has always been a trademark of mainly Lagos State gov and the FCT. Slums are unsafe and open to arson and accidental fire outbreaks. PARTICULAR in the Lagos slums and dwellers SLUMS- unhealthy Environment SLUM-DWELLER-The Group of people that reside in unhealthy Environment The harsh economic reality in Nigeria is such that the middle class is gradually vanishing, The gulf between the rich and the poor in the society is widening day-by-day, Learning questions:-What are the most effective ways of empowering slum dwellers to obtain secure tenancy rights and land tenure?- What are the most effective ways of engaging with authorities opposed to informal settlements, and ensure their accountability?- What support do slum dwellers with uncertain incomes need in order to secure group credit?- How can multiple agencies best work together to help a slum community transform? Nigeria has experienced one of the fastest rate of urbanization in the world. As urban centers have spread so rapidly geographically, so also have urban population growth ballooned as a result of the massive influx of people from the countryside who are seeking better living and economic conditions. Because the rapid population growth in the city centers far outstrips the provision of social and economic infrastructure such as housing, health care facilities,schools, roads, transportation, water, solid waste disposal and drainage facilities, an increasing number of city inhabitants are condemned to live in marginal and environmentally vulnerable locations and conditions. Nowhere in Nigeria is the urban crisis more fierce and brutish than in Lagos and Abuja, the nations economic, commercial, political, and industrial centers. It is estimated that more than two third of Lagos population live in slums where housing and living conditions are acutely squalid. The explosion of slum communities in Lagos and other urban centers is a direct consequence of severe housing shortage and the denial of access to land. Governments around the country have intensified their use of forced eviction to try to stem to growth of slums with often disastrous and counterproductive outcomes,Since the nineties, it has become commonplace for the Nigerian government to justify forced evictions, slum clearance and demolition exercises as indispensable means of carrying out urban renewal programmed, fighting crime, beautifying the city and improving critical infrastructure. The biggest casualties of these evictions are usually the urban poor, who constitute the greatest percentage of slum dwellers. With most of them having no legal documents, translating into insecurity of tenure, they live in permanent fear of evictions. The constant threat of eviction by authorities provides little incentive for the slum residents to improve their dwellings, and makes it impossible for them to obtain credits and loans required for home improvement. Lagos and Abuja currently stand out as the main theaters of repeated large- scale forced evictions. Between 2000, 2007and 2013, hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in Abuja and Lagos state , in furtherance of an urban beautification program intrinsically connected to the Abuja master plan restoration program of the Federal Capital Development Authority. The evictions gained irresistible momentum between 2003, 2007and 2013 as land values exploded, and policies were introduced to induce poor residents of the periphery and satellite cities that sucked even more population. For the most part, demolition exercises were carried out in many parts of the city in utter disregard for court orders and legally binding commitments and instruments that obligate states to uphold and respect the rule of law and human rights, especially the rights to property, privacy, housing, human dignity, health and life. We must all cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope,believe and prepare to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Facing the death penalty. I submit
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