LIVING IN PENURY IN A LAND OF PLENTY

October 31, 2015 – The menace of poverty seems to multiply by the day going by increasing number of Nigerians who are not able to afford a decent home to lay their head.

Many who fall in this category now find shelter in under bridges in Lagos, Nigeria in a country where billions of Dollars are illegally siphoned into private pockets while many are hungry.

Ironically, this is taking place in Lagos which boasts of about 10,000 homes built by the former governor of the state, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, with just aboutt 600 homes purchased and inhabited with about 9, 400 others either inhabited by rodents or overgrown with weeds due to the high cost of the buildings.

Our reporter encountered these Nigerians in the early hours of Saturday, October 31, 2015, under the bridge at Outer Marina, most still sleeping. From interaction, they have no home but all they could afford is just a mat in some cases, and mattress in others.

“This is where we spend our life in the rain and in the sun”, Ibrahim, one of them told our reporter. They live in this condition and even have kids.

Among them is a little boy of three.
No doubt, these individuals fall among the hopelessly poor that that the former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi referred to while been screened for ministerial position on the floor of the Senate as many continue to flaunt their stupendous wealth.