With vehicles unable to move in many parts of Maiduguri, residents are relying on canoes.
Flood victims stand beside their belongings offloaded from the canoe that helped them to move to safety in Maiduguri, Nigeria September 17, 2024.When floods swept through Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri last week, canoe owners volunteered to help move residents to safety.
But residents say they are now being ripped off by the canoe owners charging steep fees to move their belongings.in three decades after a dam wall burst following heavy rains that also hit several parts of West and Central Africa.Falmata Muhammed, a 48-year-old mother of three said she decided to move some furniture this week but was shocked when a canoe owner charged her 80 000 naira for a short trip, more than the monthly minimum wage.
After losing almost everything to floods, she was upset that “some are making it a big business, using the disaster to make a huge amount of money.” Fisherman and canoe owner Mohammed Yusuf said he still moved residents for free but that some residents offered money to use his canoe. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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