Yes, he has one of the lowest allocations compared to the new sources that thyemos added a few years ago. How do you manage smerits that accounts for less than 10% of all active posters? Pidgin is tough for individuals who are not Nigerians to comprehend, making it difficult for a random merit source to patrol and drop something on a post they can't even read.
Have you considered using
Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source thread until you get more merit sources?
Few years ago we ( Croatian local board) we were in the same position you are now zo I used to report our good posts and it really helped us so maybe you could do the same while waiting.
Isn't that exclusively for posts on the English board? I've never seen somebody submit a post from the local board to that thread before. Most of our local posts are written entirely in pidgin. I'm not sure how that will help.