Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University in northwest Nigeria is facing a snake infestation that would scare the bejesus out of any student that walks through its doors.
The slippery infestation turned fatal when Zainab Umar, a student of economics, was bitten on campus.
As a result, the university brought out its secret weapon against the reptilian invaders: snake charmers.
“We have employed the services of snake charmers to assist us in ridding the campus of snakes,” Suleiman Kankara, the university’s dean of student affairs,
told Nigeria’s Daily Post.
“Although the snake charmers just began to work, plans had been in the pipeline to hire them,” he said, adding that they regularly employ the charmers for smaller infestations.
In Nigeria, snake charmers mostly operate as street entertainers, pacifying the venomous reptiles enough to be held with the bare hand.
But these daredevils also claim to possess “special powers, charms or medicines,” the BBC
reported.
In a country with nearly 10,000 snake bites per year, one can imagine it’s a lucrative job.
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