With emotionally laced countenances and a seemingly deep reflection on the properties lost to the flood that sacked their community last September, residents of the Gbaradogi community in Patigi local government area of Kwara State are still yet to recover from their losses.
A riverine community with people whose major source of income is fishing and agriculture, the locals wouldn’t forget the damage the flood brought to them in a hurry.
According to the Managing Director, Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission, HYPPADEC, Abubakar Yelwa, at least seven persons lost their lives to flood in different parts of Kwara State in 2022. Still nurturing the damage occasioned by the disaster, Zainab Muhammad, a resident of Maiyaki in Gbaradogi was met sitting benumbed at the residence of her husband which is adjacent to the stretch of River Niger during a visit by The Informant247.“I lost my PVC to the flood,” she said. “I can’t find it again. It was a very bad experience. Although, my husband has made some efforts to help me do another one, I don’t really know much about how the process is going.
Salimatu Ahmed is a fish seller who recalled how she lost her voter’s card to the flood but decided not to get it back. More hellish about their condition is also the fact that the community has no particular and definitive road that connects it with the rest of the world. “We had to take a shelter at our primary school where we also used to vote. We lost no fewer than five voters cards among other things in my own household here,” he added.
“It’s a very unfortunate situation that many will not have the opportunity to elect who they want to lead them because there’s no way they can vote without the voter’s card,” Ahe said.
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