Former Lagos State governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has said that residents of communities displaced by flooding have not been compensated.

This was as he revealed that the reckless "sand filling of our waterbodies and wetlands is the prime reason for the flooding of Lagos."

According to Rhodes-Vivour, not only will this development lead to massive flooding of the Lagos Mainland LG, "it is also displacing Indigenous communities that have existed here for over 200 years."

"As has been seen with indigenous community lands in Ibeju- Lekki, entire communities are displaced with little or no compensation, No transition plan or care for their future. Development cannot solely be for the rich at the detriment and exclusion of the poor.," he said in a post on X.

He also shared an excerpt from an Interview where he criticized Lagos and its mega city status approach.

"You must be thinking about innovative ways to ensure that you protect Lagos over the next 50 years, and you don't design and develop a city for its current situation," he said.