Shehu Isah Daiyanu Dumus has run out of cash and says he only has a few handfuls of cassava flour left to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 53-year-old paraplegic man usually sells phone cards. But an extended lockdown to fight the new coronavirus in Nigeria\u2019s biggest city, Lagos, has left him stranded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lagos state government sent him a text after the lockdown began on March 30 saying he would receive a food parcel. But no food came, and with government offices closed, he had no idea when or how he would get any. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am sure that if this coronavirus did not kill people with disability, definitely this order of stay at home will kill people,\u201d he told Reuters outside a building near the airport where a friend is letting him stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hunger and anger are building in Lagos and other major African cities with little or no social safety net to protect the poor from the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n