Residents of Gate House, Gold Crescent, LSDPC Bungalow Scheme, Oke Afa, Isolo, Lagos, are currently living in fear after heavy flooding took over their estate on Tuesday, September 12. The flood was induced by the downpour.
One person was feared killed, as chairman of Gold Crescent, Jakande Estate, Emmanuel Ezeugo, on Tuesday, said: “It’s a very pathetic problem here. We’ve always had flooding. Whenever it rains, the flood enters people’s homes. It’s been worse since 2007.
“The water from other canals all the way from Idimu is channelled to our street. The canal is just after our street. Sometimes, when there’s no single drop of rain, there will still be a raging flood.
“A woman known as Mama Mary died in the flood two years ago. The Friday rain carried a corpse through our street to the canal. It carried a man’s vehicle to a distance of about 67km before an obstruction blocked it. Nobody could go out on this street after Tuesday’s rain. It’s an ecological disaster here.”