Thousands Evicted From Privatized Complex
From Times Wire Reports
Police broke down apartment doors as they forced thousands of civil servants and their families from a privatized government complex in Lagos, Nigeria.
It was just one in a series of mass evictions in Africa’s most populous nation that Amnesty International has called a “human rights scandal.”
The 1004 Housing Estate, home to 8,000 people, was sold to a company run by a former Nigerian army chief. It is one of several government properties being privatized as part of an economic overhaul.
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