Invasion by monkeys from natural habitat is forcing many residents of Soluyi\/Sosanya\u00a0Community in Gbagada area of Lagos State, to flee.<\/p>\n
Some of the residents told the\u00a0News Agency of Nigeria<\/em>\u00a0in Lagos on Monday that they could no longer withstand the situation.<\/p>\n They called on the state government to save the community from the trouble, saying that the animals forced their ways into their rooms, destroying window and door nets, foodstuffs and other items.<\/p>\n The Chairman of the community\u2019s Landlord Association, Mr. Adigun Olaleye, said that it had become difficult for the community to curtail the monkeys and their destructive attitude.<\/p>\n He said that the invasion might have resulted from the nearness of the community to a swamp forest that separated the community from Ifako area.<\/p>\n According to him, the monkeys come into residences at any time including early morning and gain entrance into rooms even if the houses are locked.<\/p>\n Olalaye told\u00a0NAN<\/em>\u00a0that the community had written a letter to the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture as regards the situation but had yet to get a relief.<\/p>\n \u201cThey said we would have to pay for them to come and pack the monkeys,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He said that the invasion had been on for years but recently became unbearable.<\/p>\n Olaleye appealed to the state government to urgently intervene.<\/p>\n Narrating her ordeal, a journalist who lives in the community, Mrs. Funmilola\u00a0 Gboteku, told\u00a0NAN<\/em>\u00a0that the monkeys had forced her family to flee.<\/p>\n \u201cMany times, these monkeys come to the neighbourhood to destroy our property. Once they see food items inside a house, they direct all their energies at gaining entrance forcefully.<\/p>\n \u201cThe monkeys are in the habit of tearing the protective nets on windows to gain entrance and eat whatever they find in the house.<\/p>\n \u201cI have had to replace the protective nets several times; \u00a0I am tired of doing it.<\/p>\n \u201cI have been locking my windows but locking of windows has disadvantages; there is no cross ventilation in the house and as a\u00a0result, we suffer heat,\u2019\u2019 she told\u00a0NAN<\/em>.<\/p>\n Another resident, Mr. Gabriel Omopariwa, said that he was tired of the destructive attitude of the monkeys and had tried to look for ways to stop them, to no avail.<\/p>\n \u201cOn several occasions, these monkeys have destroyed our kitchen nets to gain entrance and steal food items.<\/p>\n \u201cSeveral traps have been set to capture and kill these demonic animals to no avail.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of my neighbours, while trying to pour a chemical on a monkey, fell in the bowl of the chemical; she had to be rushed to a hospital.<\/p>\n \u201cShe still lives with the scars from the unfortunate incident,\u201d \u00a0he said.<\/p>\n A landlord, Mr. Joshua Folowosele, said that the monkeys entered his wife\u2019s shop on many occasions to eat gala, biscuits and other foods.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have tried to poison them on many occasions, but those monkeys are too smart; once they perceive the smell of the food, they usually detect it has been poisoned.<\/p>\n \u201cSome of them have been killed with guns, but we cannot keep shooting in a residential area; it is very risky.<\/p>\n \u201cThose of us who are landlords can testify that these monkeys have been disturbing us for years.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the landlords here had to sell his house to move to another place when he got tired of the disturbance,\u201d Folowosele said.<\/p>\n Another landlord, Mr. Oluwatosin Aregbesola, told\u00a0NAN<\/em>\u00a0that his tenants were no longer feeling safe in the house because of the monkeys.<\/p>\n \u201cThe monkeys enter kitchens to eat our soups and any foodstuff on\u00a0the shelf.<\/p>\n \u201cThe day I tried to catch one of them, the monkey attacked me by using its long nails to punch a hole in my neck and scratch my face,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Aregbesola appealed to the state government to save the community from the menace.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (NAN<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Invasion by monkeys from natural habitat is forcing many residents of Soluyi\/Sosanya\u00a0Community in Gbagada area of Lagos State, to flee. 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