Residents lament as flood wreaks havoc in Ondo community
Some residents of Okitipupa, Okitipupa Native Authorities Home of Ondo Issue, get been displaced attributable to flooding, with their properties submerged following a three-day torrential rain.
A check by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in just some of the affected areas in Okitipupa on Saturday revealed that the flooding resulted in necessary property pains and rendered many homeless.
NAN also stories that the most affected areas are the Okitipupa-Erinje axis, Omawa, Kuneyin, Apata, Igbodigo, and Ayeka, which had no honest drainage programs.
The residents who spoke with NAN in separate interviews, said that the flood develop to be worrisome as some properties were submerged with commercial activities also affected as many of us may perhaps no longer exit for his or her alternate.
They appealed to the administration of the Okitipupa Native Authorities to certain blocked drains and also begin building of drainages where they are missing.
Mr Ganiyu Akinfenwa, a resident of Erinje, said that the neighborhood has been experiencing flooding for a truly very long time attributable to an absence of honest drainage programs.
“We get been though-provoking to the authorities for abet in this axis to fabricate drainage programs so that erosion can waft freely at some level of downpour relish we skilled for the last three-days,” he said.
Mr Tosin Akindolire, a resident in Apata said many properties submerged at some level of the rain as residents bale water out of their properties.
“In our maintain case, the drainages were blocked with nylons and plastic bottles causing the water to overflow into our properties,” he said.
Akindolire appealed to the authorities to abet certain the blocked drainages.
Mrs Catherine Ebisemiju, a resident of Omawa, said that many properties were struggling from the flood, and commercial activities were disrupted as of us were unable to exit for alternate attributable to the torrential rain.
One other resident of Igbodigo, Chief Michael Orogbemi said that the ongoing avenue building in the spot develop to be affecting the residents at some level of the rain.
“The ongoing building of roads and drainage programs is affecting us as water overflow the constructed drainages and affecting our properties.
“We allure to the authorities to expedite the approach and retain it on scheduled,” Orogbemi said.
Mr Andrew Ogunsakin, the chairman of the local authorities, whereas confirming the flooding, said that the council secretary had visited the affected areas.
Ogunsakin assured residents of rapid intervention by the authorities to handle flooding in Okitipupa and its environ.
“We get visited affected areas and I will most productive guarantee residents of rapid intervention in account for to discontinuance flooding at some level of Okitipupa and its environs,” Ogunsakin said.
