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Afeez Hanafi and Percy AniPeople look out at cars sitting in floodwaters after heavy rains hit the city of Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province on July 21, 2021. Photo: AFPPeople affected by recent floodings in Lagos and some parts of the world have yet to get over the incidents, Afeez Hanafi and Percy Ani report
She ensured that all windows were shut and doors firmly closed only to be hamstrung by the volume of water that gushed out from every corner of the room. “We clear the drainage channel every Thursday and the government also helps us to clear it occasionally. I think the problem is that the channel is too narrow to contain the volume of water discharging into it.”
“I live close to Oba Elegushi New Market, Jakande Estate,” the 36-year-old teacher said as he began to share his family’s plight. “The water was just gushing out from the floor. It spoiled a lot of things in my room. We used planks to raise our bed and slept in the pool of water for three days because we have nowhere to relocate to.”
“Also, there is no gutter to channel the water away from the premises to the drainage channel on the road. The gutters are blocked,” he added. Taiwo Bashorun never thought of relocating to his hometown in Badagry any time soon but the havoc wreaked by the Friday flooding left him and his family with no choice.
He had said, “When you go to Germany, you will see that what we have here is a flash flood. What is happening to us is climate change. The world is going through change. I am not unsympathetic to the pain of the people but the floods aren’t caused by bad drainage. Our drainage channels are in good condition. Within two to three hours after the rain, you will see that the flood will end. All the water would have gone through the drainage channels.
A few days ago, the world woke up to the devastating and shocking scenes of the deadly floods that swept across Western Germany, parts of Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and northern France.
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