Carrying placards that read “No to cemetery in Nature Estate,” “Don’t impose cemetery threat,” and “Say no to nightmares” over the weekend, the residents pledged to resist the project and march to the Lagos State Government House in Alausa this week.
According to Alhaja Aminat Omolabake Braimoh, Chairperson of the Community Development Association (CDA), a cemetery poses a major health risk to residents as it sits directly opposite a school in a flood-prone area.
“Each time it rains, water seeps into our boreholes. Imagine what will happen when corpses are buried there our drinking water will be contaminated,” she stressed.