MAKOKO OUR HOME.

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. 

CEO of HOMEF, Nnimmo Bassey addressing the audience

The floating hall and school, Makoko

Gbemile Oluwatosin taking a ride with the students in Makoko

Children dancing to their song in Egun.

Entertaining the visitors

Entertaining the visitors inside the jetty.

Story and photography by Gbemile Oluwatosin