Right now there is a tunnel vision in the media and the lives of the people is a secondary scene. But if we can take a blink and see the disaster in many states caused by the flood and not the campaigns by the political party; we can save lives.

The water level has gotten to an unprecedented height, the road to Delta state has been eroded severely to a state of disuse. In fact, many have lost their lives in bid to escape to safety. The road to Port harcourt suffers same fate. What this means is that, there is no interstate trade! The prices of goods in the state is at the moon. Just this morning, we bought fuel at 650 per litter from a filling station. A small bulb onion sells for over 200 Naira and above all, there lies abject poverty for the day-to-day hustler who is automatically deprived of his office.

People are suffering and fake government schemes collecting money for individual particulars for promise of government fund/food intervention has begun, and people are sheepishly falling for these out of sheer desperation.

Families have relocated temporarily from their homes and the bars and locks are insufficient defense against the night marauders and hunger-driven thieves. There are countless accounts of property raids in vacated accommodations already.

This is a time when the government and political players should indeed win the hearts of people by rehabilitative majors like food, shelter and money. Lend help to people you know in the state, they’ll need it.

In as much as the flood is said to abate from 18th, it will take some days for Bayelsa to feel that because of the current overflow from the southwest areas, so I believe ours may persist a while. People indeed need help.