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| Aeriel view of the 'dried up' river |
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| People walking across what used to be a river |
I didn’t plan to post this today as Chronicles of Koko is
what I had lined up for Mondays but something caught my heart. It is the news
that the Ogun Isheri river dried up. I happen to have crossed the supposedly
dried up portion of the river this year on a canoe and passing it few days back,
I got goose bumps all over. I saw grass where there had been nothing but water,
and where I had crossed in a canoe, I saw people walking. It was very eerie. I quickly
messaged my friends whom we crossed the river together and they were
dumbfounded. From gists I got from the residents, On Friday afternoon, a canoe
was transporting people across the river, all of a sudden, the sea weed which
has always been in the river started to gather. It kept gathering till it
became extremely thick. It went round the canoe and the people in it were
stuck. Some of them were already screaming in fact. People around gathered and
started to think of how to rescue them. I think somebody tested the solidity of
the green, and started walking across it slowly. That was what encouraged
people on the canoe to come out. Nobody really knows the cause. Others heard about it on saturday morning and the word spread.
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| the other side of the river that is flowing |
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| Tourists on the bridge and on the river |
