My experience in Idumota

Idumota is synonymous with Crowd

Went to this popular market called IDUMOTA in Lagos Island this saturday, it started as a bright new day but the ending was chaotic.

don't know the ordeal i was still going to face, was feeling cool here

We bought a lot of things and we are almost through when the rain started, we bought an overall nylon because you can't use the umbrella with the crowd, the load you carried might also not allow you and also the space in between the shops are not large. we were just buying breakable plates when the rain got intense and within 10 minutes the canal close to the shop is full.

see our load beside her and we've not even finished buying then

we proceeded to buy the kitchen gadgets and before we blinked everywhere was full of water, the Alabaru (load carrier) was able to carry the plates and we secured a place to drop the goods then went back to carry the other 2 but it was another story, the water had passed my knee, we could barely see d floor because the water is dirty and its getting late, the worst part of it is you have to climb planks that was thrown into the water so you don't fall into the gutter, once you fall into the gutter if you are not lucky its straight to the canal or somewhere else(in short that's death) i was literally floating on the water then holding the poles so as not to sink.

I couldn't just move again because i was scared so i just kept shouting. The Alabaru was able to get to the shop where we had our mopping stick and brushes but i couldn't (The guy had locked our load in the shop because he had to run for his life too). After waiting for like 20min without her in sight, i left to call the other person we went together but i had to look for another road because i just can't go through the first way we came in with( the joy of it is there are so many entrance into the place) before we came back together the lady had carried the other load with goods close to #100,000(285$) i was in shock, we went back to where we dropped the first load but she wasn't there, paced up and down inside the water back and forth twice before we saw her, she was also looking for us.

At last, we saw her and the load was intact, i couldn't thank God enough. We got back to where we kept the other item and the area boys wanted to collect money again(chaii, nothing comes for free in lagos) at last we boarded a cab and went home,we got home 9:30pm.

my tired self with a red eyes when we got home

It was such a stressful and bad day for us.

Do not go to that market when its raining, you will not find it funny with the muddy and dirty water that's all over the place

*couldn't take pictures before my phone will fall in the water(smiles)