OMU-ARAN – Residents of Omu-Aran community in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara on Thursday counted their losses following a heavy rainfall which destroyed goods and property worth millions of naira.
A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent in the area reports that the rain, which started on Wednesday night and stopped in the early hours of Thursday, led to flooding, which ravaged the area.
No fewer than 12 shops and 20 houses were seriously affected by the flood around Omoniyepe area, along Omu-Aran-Ilofa Road, in the community.
NAN reports that items lost to the flood include electronic appliances, handsets, clothes, upholsteries and bags of rice.
The residents of the affected area were seen making frantic efforts to salvage some of their property destroyed by the flood as early as 6:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Some of the residents who spoke with NAN said that they were forced to abandon their houses when the flood started.
One of them, Mr Jide Ogundele, a shop owner, said it was a miracle that no life was lost to the flood.
“I just woke up to see myself in a pool of water and I immediately grabbed my children and swam out of the building,’’ Ogundele said. [eap_ad_1] He appealed to the State and Federal Governments and disaster management agencies to come to the aid of the people in order to alleviate the effect of the rainfall.
The Chairman of the Council, Alhaji Luqman Owolewa, described the incident as“very unfortunate.’’
He appealed to the residents to refrain from indiscriminate dumping of refuse in gutters and imbibe a culture of cleanliness in their environment to avoid further disaster.
Owolewa urged the affected residents to forward a letter on the flood to his office for onward transmission to the state government for possible assistance. (NAN)
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