Recent floods in Lagos have not spared many areas of the state including Agege, Alapere, Mushin, Surulere, Ikorodu, Lekki, Ebutte Meta, Lekki, Iyana...
have decried the destruction of properties and livelihoods caused by incessant flooding in Lagos.
“I have been living in this house for over 15 years, in fact, I did my youthful days in this Alapere, before I got married and moved to this place. This place has always been flooded at every rainfall, sometimes, the flood leaves us stuck in the house when it is much,” Bose Apesin a resident at Ayo street, Off church street, Alapere said.
Clothes and many household items were tied up in large lumps and rolled to one side of the apartment. Tenants at the apartment registered their anger at how exposed they are to flood. Mr Adeniyi and his brother are the only ones occupying the 16-room apartment popularly called ‘Face me I face you’ as the house has become inhabitable.“This is my father’s house, I moved here when my business was no longer profitable and everything I had finished. I cannot live under the bridge and I cannot beg on the street, so I accepted my fate and started living here,” the middle-aged man said.
Mrs Apesin said during heavy rainfalls, it is impossible for them to go out, while those that are outside cannot come in.Efforts to reach Tunji Bello, the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, were not successful as calls and text messages received no response.
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