Minna, Niger State
No be small matter o! Flood for Niger State don carry plenty people waka from their homes, as at least 200 don lose their lives and hundreds more dey missing. The wahala begin when rain fall wey turn to flood, affecting towns like Tiffin Maza and Anguwan Hausawa for Mokwa. E no easy, my padi!
Dem dey call this flood the worst in 60 years. Wetin you go expect? Mokwa no just dey important for trading, e also dey connect farmers and traders from all sides. But now, na shelter be problem for di people wey dey suffer as assistance never fully reach dem, despite wetin our President talk say aid dey come sharp-sharp.
Abubakar Hussaini from Humanity First, na organization wey dey help people wey dey face real wahala, talk say dem dey need food, clothing, and shelter. “People dey suffer; no food and wetin dem go wear,” he talk. Hope say aid go reach dem soon, but e still dey take time like e be say na snail wey dey carry dem waka.
On top dis matter, Aishatu Bello wey don retire as teacher don lose everything she get. E no dey easy for am as she dey squat for neighbor house now. “I don dey live here all my life. Now, all I see na hunger and no shelter,” she talk with serious face. Her anger dey show say people dey vex say government no dey do di work wey dem suppose do.
We also get Isaac Abel wey work for printing company wey dey fear how e go take rebuild im life. “I don dey here for 13 years; now I no even know wetin I go do next,” e talk. E show grow concern say markets don scatter and businesses don loss equipment in the flood. Na real condition wey hard!
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) don start to release aid, but Nigerians dey ask wetin go come out of di $10 million World Bank grant wey Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago talk say go fit help stop flooding. Why we still dey ask for donation when wetin dem promise no work? Some people dey gree say na dam breach cause all dis, but di authorities don deny am say e be erosion wahala.
Wetin baffle people pass na di warning from meteorological agency wey talk say dis kind flash floods fit happen again in 15 states, including Niger State. As flood season dey come, so many people dey fear and e dey show say lack of drainage dey cause plenty accidents for Nigeria. Na wetin we go do to save our people from this kind environmental disaster?
As dem dey search for missing people, dem also dey fear say disease fit outbreak with the level of bodies wey dey still dey inside water. So, make we all shine our eye and help each other. E never finish until dem chop palm wine come solve every problem!
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