Agege residents, whose houses were affected by the demolition to make way for the construction of a railway station, have started exhume corpses of their relatives buried in the houses.
Sunday Punch reports that some of the corpses had been buried for over 30 years. Their remains, said to be mainly bones, had to be moved to new tombs.
One of the residents, Yusuf Bakare said he had reburied his father at Jafojo. He added that Islamic clerics had been invited to offer burial rites before the reburial.
Another resident, identified only as Taju, said two corpses of his relatives buried in 1999 and 2005, were exhumed from the house he lives.
The affected residents confirmed to Sunday Punch that the company had counted the number of tombs and added money for the reburial to the compensation they were given.
