Flood Sacks Residents, Submerges Houses, Cars, Others As Rain Wreak Havoc In Lagos Suburbs
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some houses and cars were sunk in water at the Abattoir-Orile Agege-Almaroof – Aboru canal, and the lyana-lpaja axis in Lagos State as flood continues to wreak havoc on the residents.
The same situation of flooding was witnessed at the back of the Government Senior College Agege on Thursday and on the Obafemi Awolowo Way in Ikeja.
SaharaReporters obtained photographs of the flood disasters, depicting how daily activities in the Lagos communities had been disrupted by the flood.
The flood submerged properties and houses forcing many of the residents to relocate to the higher plains.
Lagos is one of the states in Nigeria that have been battling flooding for years without no end in sight.
SaharaReporters had on Wednesday reported that the House of Representatives urged the federal and state governments to start sensitisation and mitigating efforts to prevent the impending flood disasters.
This had come on the heels of a motion of urgent importance in which the house expressed concerns that large portions of the country were prone to flooding according to the prediction of Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) in January this year.
The lawmakers called on the government to prepare palliatives and intervention measures for Nigerians to reduce the effect, while it resolved to invite Nigeria National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to brief the house on measures in place in preparation of the floods.
No fewer than 600 people had died in 2022 across Nigeria in the deadliest floods experienced in a decade.
At least 195 people have been reportedly dead and while more than 322,000 were also affected by the flooding caused by torrential rain in Niger Republic.
The United Nations had raised the alarm that flooding in Nigeria affected more than 2.8 million men, women, and children.
Saharareporters
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on Jun 16 2023. Filed under National.
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