Demonstrators at a World Water Day rally in Ikeja, Lagos, in March 2018. Credit: Environmental Rights Action.
“In my almost seven years of living there, I don’t think we’ve experienced any government water,” Funmi Ajayi said. “An elder who has been living there since 1979 has told me he has never seen water.”
Ajayi had to raise her voice to be heard over the din of maintenance work going on outside the building where she was meeting with other water rights campaigners brought together by Environmental Rights Action (ERA) Nigeria.
