Nigeria: In Bayelsa, Flood-Ravaged Residents Groan As Food, Petrol Prices Surge

hilip Godfrey was half-awake when the water came with torrential intensity and submerged his apartment in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, in October. But when the 37-year-old was jolted into reality, he jumped out of his building and found that the entire neighborhood had become submerged by flood.

She said:"The little money I make from selling fruits and vegetables is what I feed my family with. But the recent flood swept away my goods and rendered us homeless. Now, I don't have to think about where to sleep alone, I have to think of what myself and my children will eat. And things are very expensive now."

"A single onion was sold for N400 at Tombia market three days ago," lamented Justina Okubo, a trader at the popular Tombia Market. At the Jubilee Hotel, Okaka, Yenagaoa, nightlife lovers and other revelers lamented how the flood impacted night life in the state capital, with attendant rise in the cost of alcoholic drinks, assorted meat, grilled fishes, among others.

During a state broadcast in October, Duoye Diri, the governor of Bayelsa said that nearly a million people in over 300 communities in the state had been internally displaced. George Eromosele, a commercial driver who plies the Yenagoa-Port Harcourt axis, told PREMIUM TIMES that he has been unable to move out of Yenagoa because of the flood."Since the flood scattered everywhere, I have been unable to leave Yenagoa. First, there is no road to pass through except for those traveling through the waters. Again, we don't even have fuel because the price is too high. It's really sad.

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