Driving past Lagos House/Marina exit, there was this Nigeria Prison Force van heading to Ikoyi Prison stuck in traffic (as usual), with the prisoners in it shoving their hands through the vents of the van & shouting inaudible stuff.

Then she noticed this Gala seller shoving Gala into the tiny peeking fingers of the prisoners, one by one. As the traffic started moving, he ran across the road, put his basket on the curb, grabbed a handful of Gala and ran back to the Prison van.

At this point, he’s running alongside the van, just shoving Gala into the van through the tiny bars. Even the Warden benefited.

He couldn’t even see prisoners, just those fingers! As traffic freed up & he walked back to his ware on the curb, she stopped him and asked if they paid for the Gala, thinking the Warden might have paid. He said no, he just gave them because they were begging for help, that they were hungry.

She couldn’t believe it and she enquired the quantity of Gala he gave them? He said he didn’t know, he was just giving them, not counting how many!

Here was a poor street hawker, giving away half his wares to random people he didn’t know and would possibly never meet, because they needed help and were hungry!!

So what is your excuse?

We pray that poor Gala hawker will always find help at his point of need, and food whenever he is hungry, just as he met the need of those prisoners today.

BLACK Diamonds Support Foundation met with him and we had a chat with him, he’s a great philanthropist, he has a heart of gold, we sure know he will go places and May God continue to sustain him to do more…