 Weeks after the demolition of buildings and properties in the airport road axis of Benin City by the state government, organized civil societies and owners of properties that were destroyed have taken to the street to protest the actions of the state government. Protesting with different inscriptions on their placards along major roads in Benin City, they demanded justice over the action of the state government. I have a house at Okoroma community where I was staying with my family. One morning the state government just came with bulldozers and dogs and started pulling down houses and right now as I speak I'm homeless nowhere to stay. The state government have rendered me homeless and made me a refugee in my own state, in my country. We are surprised that last month they declared curfew. We stay in Okoroma, we went to Edulant Sassouvi, they told us that our land is not government land, we built. When government declared curfew that everybody should stay away from the community, we took our family and went to town, come down here to stay with some of our persons. Only for us to watch and be sure that the curfew about security exercise became an avenue for them to demolish our houses. We are here today to correct to the old world that the approach our governor used in saying they acquired the land in Obagi and again Mokba, that he didn't follow the due process in acquiring those properties. Those communities have been existing for centuries. And Gopi cannot claim ownership of the community for 500 years in 2017. The governor of all people and his government has decided to take our ancestral land from us on the note that he acquired it, from who did he acquire the land for in the first place. And then secondly, without messy, the governor and his government were meant to protect life of citizens. And the governor and the government is a better… Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.