HERE IS OUR HOME!
My journey into the heart of the Makoko
axis was another adventure on its own, seeing wounded houses built inside
water.
Again the inhabitants of Makoko are majorly
the Egun people of Badagry, Ijaw and Ilaje people too and Egun is their
official language the language is similar to Yoruba dialect. While i was
thinking, how will i transport myself inside the water, a very young boy offers
to transport for just N 400 (four hundred naira only) in other to take me to
the venue of the train of Sustainability Academy Health of Mother Earth
Foundation (HOMEF) program tagged “Turmoil in Africa; Uprising or Chaos”.
Executive Director and environmentalist, Mr
Nnimmo Bassey noted the government should make sure they carter for the people
of Makoko community in terms of giving them the basic health facilitates and
adequate education, that they should not be sideline from what they deserve
from the government.
However, at the end of the program,
JesuDegbe jetty perhaps is seen as the largest jetty in Makoko which contains
about 30 commuters at a time.
Here are the pictures of the event.
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| CEO of HOMEF, Nnimmo Bassey addressing the audience |
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| The floating hall and school, Makoko |
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| Gbemile Oluwatosin taking a ride with the students in Makoko |
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| Children dancing to their song in Egun. |
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| Entertaining the visitors |
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| Entertaining the visitors inside the jetty. |
Story and photography by Gbemile Oluwatosin
