'If the flood had occurred in the night, it could have claimed the lives of many of the occupants of this estate.'
Some residents of Trademore Estate in Abuja have shared their experiences and thoughts on the flood that ravaged the estate in the early hours of Friday following a downpour across the Nigerian capital.
Alhaji Ashiru, a police inspector recently posted to the area, who was narrating how he lost all his properties to the flood, rushed to pull out the corpse from the canal with the help of other residents around.National Emergency Management AgencyThe spokesperson of NEMA, Manzo Ezekiel, assured that the agency will deploy its officers to the estate to continue searching for other missing persons.
“I saw many people that were struggling inside the water. I wanted to rescue but I was able to rescue just a few,” he said. “If the flood had occurred in the night, it could have claimed the lives of many of the occupants of this estate,” he said. Another resident who identified himself as Isah, described the flood experience as a “terrible” episode. He said the estate is located on a waterway and that lives and properties are at stake.
Mr Osinaike told PREMIUM TIMES that each time a flood incident occurs, all the agencies of government would come and make promises without taking any action. “We have told them time and time again that there is a need for intervention at the source of this water. Nothing is done. The only reaction the government is giving to us is that there is a need to demolish buildings on the floodplain.”
He said the authorities are now demolishing people’s homes, noting that after the flood incident on Friday, they were already taking photos of the houses they would demolish.
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