Musa Ibrahim stood in the warm September sun, his face weary, his shoes caked in mud, his red eyes surveying what had been his furniture store for several years but now seemed unfamiliar. On 10 September, floodwaters inundated his store and manufacturing site on the west side of Fori Bridge in north-eastern Borno State.
When Mr Ibrahim raced to the shop that night, the water was already ankle-deep and rising fast. “What I saw shocked me,” he told PREMIUM TIMES.
“Everything was happening fast, so I began grabbing things as quickly as possible,” he said. “Yet, we lost pretty much everything.”
