A 200-level Chemical Engineering student just lost his life for partaking in a bet in an attempt to swim across a river. the condition is that if he is able to swim across the river, he gets about $0.3 which is equivalent to about 300 naira. as a typical Ijaw man,
Imagine how something that is not equivalent to a $1 will kill somebody whom has almost made it through studies, the money cannot even buy anything on the market, actually a lot of people gambles on so many things but river is something that someone should be afraid of because you cannot tell everything beneath the water, if it was organized gambling a boat was supposed to be following from behind so that by the time he gets tired they will rescue him, actually this kind of gambling has the highest risk because you are not only prone to the gambling lost but also live will be a stake, how can someone's live be worth $0.3. Funny enough that tribe is a water tribe that swims more any other tribe within the region.