A Nigerian man, who identifies himself as King Millie on Twitter has made a strong case for pure water sellers, admonishing Nigerians to be kinder to them.

In a series of threaded tweets, the young guy who describes himself as a blogger and OAP breaks down the rigours and hardship satchet water popularly known as pure water sellers in this clime have to endure, only to earn a meagre N40.00. Some times, they  even run into debt and have to pay a fine of N5000 where they are caught by law enforcement agents.

He suggests that instead of just giving money to 'able bodies beggers', these pure water hawkers are a better fit for benevolence, given how hard they work  and make very little daily.

Read his thread(a series of connected Tweets from one person) below:

According to pure water sellers. Sometimes, It Takes About 6 Hours To Sell 20 Sachets Of Water Which Amounts To A Total Of N200 (less than 1Dollar).
From The N200, The Profit Is Only About N40 As The Pure Water Sellers Have To Pay Ice block Which Was Used To Cool The Water.

Bottom line Is That Some Of Them Make Only N40 In 6 Hours Of Hustling Under The Hot Sun, Risking Their Lives On Major Roads And Always At The Mercy Of The Environmental Protection Board Who Whip Them With Cane When Caught; And Fine Them N5,000 when they are caught.

Sadly, Passengers And Drivers Reach The Traffic Stops, They Prefer To Dash N100, N200 Or Even N500 To Beggars And Fake Sufferers Who Sometimes Make About N1,500 A Day Doing Nothing But Begging, Leaving Them Richer And Safer Than The Pure Water Sellers Who Are Entrepreneurs...

So When Next You Are At A Traffic Stop, Please:
1. Dash The Pure Water Seller Instead
2. Buy Pure Water To Patronize Them And If The Change Is (N10, Or Even N20, You Can Leave It With Them)
3. Say Something Nice To Them. Greet Them, Encourage Them.

Slow Down, Don't Knock Them Down.
5. Even If You Wont Buy The Pure Water, If They Ask You To Buy, Rather Than Ignoring Them And Facing Front As If They Are Not Humans, You Can Look At Them, Smile And Say "Thank You".


Such an eye opening thread. So kind of him!

https://www.mojidelano.com/2019/03/kindness-nigerian-man-makes-strong-case-for-pure-water-hawkers-encourages-nigerians-to-patronise-them-more/

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Wow! Nice.!

Instead of giving these almajiri's money, I'll start giving 'pure water' sellers money instead.

Whatever

THEY MAKE ABOVE 40 NAIRA.

A BAG OF ICE COLD SACHET WATER IS RETAILED TO THEM FOR 80 NAIRA OR LESS.

A BAG CONTAINS 20 SACHET WATERS.

THESE GUYS SELL FOR 10 NAIRA EACH AND MAKE 200 NAIRA PER BAG.

THEIR PROFIT IS 120 NAIRA.

I REPEAT, NO NIGERIAN WILL RISK HIS LIFE LIKE THEY DO FOR 40 NAIRA.




I SUPPORT THE CALL TO SHOW AN EXTRA LOVE AND CARE TO THESE GUYS.

Doz pure water seller can make a good Decision when they want to Vote bkuz wen sun don knack dere head run for GoSlow dem go know say d Economy no good but not all diz Almagiris dat will colet ur money wen election time reach carry ur moni enta Transport go dere state go choose d wrong choice.

Nice

Really nice!

Hmm! Many things are like that in this Country

Every1 is making sense in diz next level,,,,,,,,,,,,,, letx learn 2b helpful plz

This is the best thing I've heard in years. God bless you OAP!

Please allow me to blame buhari on this thanks.
Buhari why

God go bless their hustle?


On the contrary, U keep saying government doesn't keep to their promises....

U bought a bottle of coke since last week have u returned the bottle??

True talk my guy


Am a pure water seller start by asking for my haza

No amount is small

Real talk

Nice one there

Thank you! next

God bless this dude

every hustle is a hustle

inoki247:
Doz pure water seller can make a good a Decision when they want to Vote not all diz Almagiris dat will colet ur money wen election time reach carry ur moni enta Transport go dere state go choose d wrong choice.

This one don kolo finish o...

peteruuu:
Wow! Nice.!

Instead of giving these almajiri's money, I'll start giving 'pure water' sellers money instead.

If you like give Atiku.

Touching...

AuntyAmope:
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David "de Save"

peteruuu:
Wow! Nice.!

Instead of giving these almajiri's money, I'll start giving 'pure water' sellers money instead.

Try to recover from the election pains. Not all Almajiris voted. Again, some voted for your candidate as well. Its not a straight jacket.

I second his motion but merely hearing his name it sounds familiar. He looks like he was one of those pure water hawkers

Last last pure water hawkers dey suffer, e no bad if you dey buy one bag for their hand dey drink am finish daily.
You're saving mankind

Sensible sense from Observant observer