“At least we are better than Lekki residents for once. We can bail out
our own water but they can‟t. Have you seen the pictures? Some of
their houses are completely submerged and they have crocodile in the
water.”
“You can be sure that the government will intervene in some way and
help them. Just wait and see the billions that will move in that
direction when this is over. Remember when bar beach overflowed? But
for us, nobody cares!”
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“Has anyone noticed that this house is sinking?” Akunna said as he
scraped the floor with his bailer.
“What?” Josiah said.
“Can‟t you see we are now below ground level? This place was a swamp
and with all this rain the filling they did cannot hold anymore. Can‟t you
see that to step out we now have to literally climb onto the street?”
“Oga Akunna. That means we are living in an underground apartment”
Josiah said with a grin and wiped sweat from his brow.
“You are stupid. I am telling you that this defective structure is going
under. We may wake up one day to find that we have vanished into the
ground like Atlantis.”
“Then they will put our pictures on CNN like the victims of that high
rise building in London. We will become famous.”
“You will be dead you fool.”
“But at least, we will be on CNN.”
“Look at you” Lukman said. Those that died in T.B Joshua‟s church,
ordinary Linda Ikeji blog we did not see their passport photographs.
You will be lucky if PM News mentions Katakata Street, not to talk of
one useless carpenter that lived there.