An unidentified widow recently collapsed due to hunger while walking with her three children in a market in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The distressing scene was captured in a viral video shared on social media on Friday.
The video shows the widow, weakened and lying on the bare floor by the roadside, surrounded by sympathizers.
According to traders in the video, the widow, who came from Amuloko in Ibadan with her three children, fainted with one of the children on her back at Oja Oba Iso Ololubo. The purpose of their journey was to buy a bag of sachet water on credit.
Traders and passersby, moved by the dire situation, began donating money for the widow in a small black plastic bucket, and her youngest child was given pap.
The widow, too weak to speak, had reportedly not eaten for four days, as per her account.
The eldest child of the widow, a girl, explained in Yoruba, “We’ve not eaten for four days.
“My mother said all of us should come to carry water and sell it so that we can find money to eat. We were walking from home, and she fell down here.”
The Nigeria Labour Congress has declared a two-day nationwide strike from February 27 to 28, 2024, in response to the prevailing economic challenges across the country.
Watch the video below:
Widow who had her child pinned on her back fainted in a market in Ibadan because of hunger. Says she hasn’t eaten in 4 days pic.twitter.com/7QlgFDa5Nf
— Intel Region (@IntelRegion) February 16, 2024
These are the results this government is yielding and very soon it shall be over. Let’s have hope in starving and dying. Let’s suffer and die now so that it can be better for our unborn descendants.