This special report underscores the debilitating and squalid conditions the people of Effiat in Mbo local government area live in.

A trip to the island community reveal a 19th century style of living, as the people carry on with life in houses made of wooden planks, drink from a small  open pond and wait for the day the ocean will overflow its banks.

The people told our correspondent OKODI OKODI that they know nothing about electricity, security or hospitals, as their pregnant women will have to cross the ocean to Oron, to seek medical care.