BY Jemilat Nasiru
Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has offered to assist Kate Dekpe, a resident of Oviri-Agbarho, a submerged community in Delta state.
Speaking to Quest News in a video, Dekpe narrated, in pidgin English, how she lost her birds to the disaster.
“The flood started gradually. When It first started, I thought it affected just my neighbour. I did not know it will get to my house,” Dekpe said in pidgin.
“As I am speaking to you right now, I lost over 300 fowls. Please, let the government come to our aid.”
After seeing the video, Omokri picked interest in Dekpe’s use of pidgin English which he described as “most poetic l dialect I have ever heard in the English language.
“Can you help me identify this woman. I want to financially assist her, not because of the loss she suffered from the flood, but because her pidgin English is the most poetic l dialect I have ever heard in the English language. Send her details to info@renoomokri.org,” he wrote on Twitter.
On Thursday, Omokri announced that he had been able to reach Dekpe.
In a video he posted of her, Dekpe said she would open a bank account and make public her details, while urging well meaning Nigerians to help her.
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