This morning, while having coffee on the patio we were startled to see a fire burning in the village which sits between our place and the ocean along Kuramo Waters off Lagos. We grabbed our binoculars and the camera and saw armed men standing on 2 front end loaders demolishing the homes of hundreds of people then setting them ablaze. It immediately reminded us of the slum razing recently done in Zimbabwe. We watched as hundreds of people stood across from their homes helpless watching them burn. Many were frantically trying to salvage any small thing they could from their homes... Truly a sad sight. Rumor has it that the local government gave warning to the residents to clear out last week, but there is no place for these folks to resettle so they stayed put.
The photos are shocking...
Note the front end loader demolishing shacks in the center of this photo. This village is only a small strip of sand between the Kuramo Lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean. All the people are only able to stand by and watch their homes be destroyed. 
