Flood Please Go Faster, This Is November. Niger Deltans Battling To Save Homes From Water And Snakes Cry Out

November 3, 2022 Greg Abolo

The Oasis Reporters

November 3, 2022

*One of the difficulties many Niger Deltans faced were the problem of confronting desperate snakes in their flooded homes whose habitats in the forests were overrun by water. They float out to safety.*

By Greg Abolo
@gregabolo
@Theoasisreport1

Difficulties many Nigerians of the Niger Delta stock experience in the few overcrowded and poorly run Internally Displaced People’s Camps in the region makes many of them think twice before considering abandoning home for the inglorious comfort and safety of IDP Camps.

With the floods this year, many of them chose to remain in the waters and brave it out rather than move.

“Many citizens chose to stay rather than move out this year”, Okechukwu told The Oasis Reporters on a faint line from Ase, Ndokwa East Local Government Area in Delta State.

Network reception went off in his community because the only Glo telecommunications mast there had it’s generating set submerged in flood waters.

*Care for a nap ? Sleeping easy in flooded Niger Delta.*

“I chose to stay so as to watch over the garri my wife was able to fry out of the cassava we harvested from our flooded farms. What if we left and the waters covered our food stuff, what would our fate be afterwards”?

He climbed a high building to receive floating network from another huge distance away from his hometown.

While Niger Deltans were making makeshift arrangements for sleeping above rising flood levels, desperate snakes and other animals of the Niger Delta were also looking for shelter.

Many citizens were suddenly confronted with snakes also seeking shelter, having flowed with the waters into the living rooms of many citizens.

Such confrontations were a deathly struggle, sometimes at night in poorly lit homes.

The reptiles also needed dry spots and to stay on. They are not water borne animals. While thinking of safety for human beings, animals deserve to be thought of as well.

However, deaths have o recorded all over the states ravaged by floods which the Nigerian minister of water resources said was not devastating enough to declare an emergency over.

Meanwhile, wannabe politicians have been visiting poorly attended IDP Camps to make donations and for photo ops with publicity because elections are approaching.

Yet Nigerian leaders have not thought of commonsensical reliefs to avert the problems of flooding in the region.

By Greg Abolo
gregabolo@gmail.com