Nigeria, June 3 -- By all standards of decency and humanity, what is happening to the displaced victims of the Niger State flood is not just shameful-it is an indictment of a system that repeatedly turns its back on its most vulnerable. In Mokwa Local Government Area, thousands who have lost everything to the rampaging floodwaters are now being forced to suffer a second disaster-one crafted not by nature, but by human negligence and administrative apathy.

It is heartbreaking to hear the cries of men, women, and children who, having escaped the grip of death by flood, are now slowly being choked by the grip of inaction. "They only give us one bread and one Cowbell," a victim lamented. Imagine escaping a flood that swallowed your home, you...