The aim of this presentation is to sensitize/ create awareness about financing infrastructure as a means to end poverty and inequalities

1. Project:
PROPOSED URBAN UPGRADING
AT
BADIA,
LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

2. Agencies involved/participants
• Lagos State Government and the Lagos State
Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and
Urban Development (As a Valued
Resource/Economically Viable Part of the State)
• UNCHS/UNDP-United Nation Centre for Human
Settlements (As Implementation activities for
Lagos Metropolitan Area Masterplan, 1980-
2000)
• Apapa local government, Nigeria (interested in
securing place for the construction of its
council’s secretariat and secondary school)

3. Agencies involved/participants
(contd)
• The Nigerian Railway Corporation (opportunity
for possible expansion of the rail station and
establishment of the second rail line to the
Apapa port, warehousing facilities and staff
quarters)
• The community development associations (Badia
West, Badia East, and Apapa Oro); community
leaders, landlords, and residents/occupiers
(insecurity of tenure, poor infrastructure,
sanitation, inaccessibility to liveable
environment)

4. Agencies involved & participants (cont’d)
• NGOs: (Molaj Consultants, SERAC & SFHL-
Independent Development Consultant , Social
and Economic Rights Action Centre & Society
for Family Health and Living)

5. MANDATE
• Urban renewal of the inner areas of the Nigerian
cites
• through upgrading of shanties squatter
settlements
• with the view to ensuring the provision of
acceptable basic amenities, standard of housing,
infrastructure enhanced employment
opportunities and income of the urban poor
• Commencing with three (3) Pilot schemes in 1.
Badia (Lagos), 2. Kano and 3. Aba

6. .About the Site
• within the south of Lagos metropolitan
area
• within the Badia East portion of the
Apapa Local Government area of Lagos
state (The commercial capital of Nigeria)
• located in the coaster area of lagos with
an annual rainfall of 1460 – 1830mm,
Relative humidity of 80-100%; average
temp-18-32 degree Centigrade

7. The site (cont’d)
• Soil Nature is Hydromorphic (peat band
alluvial: silty, poorly drained; high
underground water level, low-lying
terrain, prone to water-logs during rainy
seasons; unpredictable miscellaneous
fills requiring an expected sand filling of
1 – 3m for foundation, 8m and 20-25m
piles for foundation of structures not
exceeding 2floors and 20-25 floors
respectively)

8. • has a population size of about
26,250/118,500 (SNC Lavalin,
Nigeria: Urban Infrastructure
Upgrading of Lagos State, 1995)
• comprises of six communities-
Iddo/Ijora Olopa, Ijora Oloye, Badia,
Sari Iganmu, Apapa and Panti

9. • Settlement in Badia dates back to the
1960s, arising from residents’ movements
away from Ijora, which was precipitated
by the establishments of
industries/industrial estates and its
proximity/contiguous location to Ijora,
Apapa Ports and Lagos Island (i.e.
nearness to employment opportunities)
• Consequently: Rapid increase in
population without infrastructure to
match. Led to slum, insecurity of tenure,
poor sanitation, poor planning and other
concomitant challenges of urban slums;

10. • Predominantly Residential (39.2%)
• Commercial (12.2%),
• Public/Institutional (4.3%),
• Industrial (1.0%),
• Education (1.5%),
• Circulation (5.8%),
• Undeveloped (35%)

11. • Ranked First amongst the 42
identified as blighted areas in Lagos
State, with the most deplorable
living conditions, with no particular
previous positive intervention.
• Somewhat efforts were demolitions of part
thereof in 1978/79 (politically motivated-
interparty issue); 1986 under the guise of
clearing set-backs for the Rail line (Military
fiat) and in August 2003 (the demolition of
entire Oke-Eri part of Badia East for take-of
the upgrading activities)

12. Governmental acquisition
• Under Federal (Colonial)
Government valid and subsisting
acquisition order (12th March,
1929), for the Nigerian Railway
Corporation

13. Emerging Challenges
• Pressure from the original owners (Ijora Family)
on the Government to revert the land back to
them., since government were yet to put the land
into use/uses for which it was acquired from
them
• Re-sales of plots of land by secondary
settlers/occupiers (Ilajes etc) displaced from
Oluwole village (site for the National theatre,
1973) who knew they are temporarily occupying

14. • NO FURTHER ACTION COULD BE TILL DATE
Possibly due to
 LACK OF POLITICAL WILL,
PRESSURE FROM THE ORIGINAL FAMILY-OWNER/
COURT LITIGATION (Statute-barred Possibility)
IMPLICATIONS OF SECONDARY SALES OF LAND
CONCOMMITANT BURDEN OF RESETTLEMENT
OR RELOCATION , NGOs activities etc

15. CONCLUSION
• Development according to Juan Eliasson means
so much for the world and for the individual
human being, it is a life in peace. Development
is a life without poverty and inequalities.
Development is respect of human rights, and the
belief in governance and in good and strong
institutions. To end poverty and fight
inequalities – which is a universal challenge –
there is need to grow a strong, inclusive and
transformative economy based on public-private
partnership to fund infrastructure.