Africa's megacity Lagos braces for two-week lockdown
Omolara Adejokun and her family live in a slum in one of Nigeria’s biggest cities – Lagos – and also the epicenter of the nation's coronavirus outbreak…
She, her husband and their three children live in a one-story compound shared with about 20 other families, each with one room. All the residents share one toilet and bathroom.
Adejokun is an evangelist and her family is living off her donations from preaching after her husband stopped getting paid..
SOUNDBITE) (English) EVANGELIST, OMOLARA ADEJOKUN, SAYING:''So it is not easy at all, even to buy one week's food is not easy, talk less of two weeks (nevermind two weeks), and we have three kids, and we still have our grandma that is living with us. So it is not easy at all because the money to use to buy it even, we don't have it now.''
On Monday Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced that he was imposing a 14-day lockdown that included some of the country’s biggest cities like Lagos and Abujah. With the lockdown beginning Monday night, people hurried to stock up on food and other supplies.
(SOUNDBITE) (Yoruba) LAGOS RESIDENT, JIMOH KOLAWOLE, SAYING:''We came to buy beans, everything is expensive, may God help us. Rice, beans, cassava grain and palm oil are all expensive. Even onions, only God can help us."
Lagos, which is home to at least 20 million people, has more than 110 confirmed coronavirus cases so far.
It’s not the disease that has sparked people's worries about survival, but not having enough food and water to get by.
The Nigerian president’s order to ban movement for two weeks has left people confused about whether they can leave their homes for food or medicine.
And some businesses like drinking water vendors were also not sure if they could operate.
Adejokun is simply praying that the government will find her something to eat.
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