LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – A newly wedded groom, Mr. Glory JATO, has reportedly been swept away by flood in Oba Ile, in Akure North council area of Ondo state.
According to reports, the middle-aged man, who is said to be a Federal Government Worker, was coming from work when he was swept away by flood on Friday.
Assistant Secretary of the Landlords Association of Bethel Estate, Oba Ile, Pastor Gbenga Ojuloge, in a statement with journalists expressed grief over the incident stating that the death of the victim was pathetic
Ojuloge said the community needed government intervention to help dredge the water to prevent future occurrences.
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He pointed out that “the water had turned to a death trap that always takes lives year in and year out, as properties and residents were no longer safe from the constant threat of the river.
“All the efforts made by the community to ensure that the flood was kept at bay every year always remained futile.
“We are using this opportunity to draw the attention of both the Federal Government and State Government and the local government to what is actually going on here in our community.
“This is the main access to the community, the flood is already taking what we have used our years of our lives to construct.
“Everything you can see on the bridge is actually the effort of the landlords of the community, we discovered that the flood will just come and push everything away, so we are calling in the government to come to our aid.
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“On Friday we lost a soul here and that is why we are calling and we want everyone to know that this is the main access to all the flood coming from Ijapo, Alagbaka, oja oba, so immediately there is rain, no access to our roads again.
A landlady in the community, Mrs Oluwatosin Ibitoye said the death of the young man was painful as she was part of the rescue party to save the life of the young man.
Ibitoye said once it rained the road would be cut off and residents and children would not be able to go to work and school respectively.
“This road is a major road to all the community and we appeal to the state government to come to our rescue, we do lose lives during the raining season.
“We have a situation that we do lose people when it rains, on Friday, we lost a young married man to this flood, which is so painful so we appeal to the State Government we appeal to Akeredolu to come to our rescue,” she added.
