The flood has submerged several homes, offices, trade premises and roads.
Several communities in Lagos Utter had been ravaged by floods, which resulted from heavy downpours that swept away a commercial motorcyclist, more regularly known as Okada rider and displaced a entire bunch of residents.
SaharaReporters gathered that the motorcycle rider simply identified as Mr Abe, modified into swept away on Saturday after he reportedly did not listen to warnings from his colleagues no longer to fade along the Ile Epo Bus discontinuance canals in the Alimosho Native Government Net online page online of the insist.
It modified into gathered that the heavy rainfall which started at about 2am on Saturday continued till about 2pm, ensuing in torrential flood that wreaked havoc in several communities in the insist including Papa Ashafa and Fashola communities in the Orile-Agege Native Government Net online page online in Alimosho.
The flood has submerged several homes, offices, trade premises and roads.
It modified into moreover gathered that residents of Ago-Palace in the Isolo achieve apart of the insist which has turn accurate into a ordinary flood inclined achieve apart, had been fighting flood waters in their properties after the Saturday downpour.
Sources from the affected areas said that the Nationwide Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) along side the Bother Management Unit of the Nigeria Police, team of the Nigeria Police Power from the Dopemu Divisional Police Net online page online, Lagos Utter Neighbourhood Safety Corp in conjunction with the Community Pattern Associations of Papa Ashafa, Fashola and others hang distributed emergency support support to the flood impacted communities.
Additionally reacting to the incident, the South West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, appealed to Lagos residents to rob utmost precautions.
Farinloye said, “The Nationwide Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and other emergency companies are on evaluate divulge at some flashpoints, discussing with affected populations and proffering quick alternatives in facing the eventualities.
“Officers of NEMA along side the Bother Management Unit of the Nigeria Police, Lagos Utter Neighbourhood Safety Corps in conjunction with the Community Pattern Associations of Papa Ashafa, Fashola and others hang distributed emergency support support to the flood-impacted communities.
“Some weak groups had been moved to non permanent safe providers, while the adults are salvaging their water-impacted properties.
“NEMA is assisting the owner of a building the achieve apart the fence collapsed. There is the should always salvage the building by reconstructing the fence to solidify the putrid to discontinuance it from collapsing on the next bungalow.
“To boot, we’re sending younger of us’s garments, ladies’s garments, mattresses, antiseptic and other quick assistance to the impacted inhabitants at Orile Agege Native Government Net online page online to make quick succour to about 200 of us this afternoon.”
Similarly, the Director Long-established of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Ahmed, has ordered the quick free up of support supplies to the of us that hang taken refuge in four churches in the areas.
