FLOOD SWEEPS ELEVEN YEAR OLD BOY
‘Three young men attempted rescuing the boys and succeeded in rescuing the older one, but one of the rescuers popularly known as Wasiu Stubborn was swept away while trying to rescue the other victim,” eyewitness said
Penpushing further reports that a Community Development Association leader in Oki town, Solomon Agboghoroma who was at the scene expressed lamentation over the ugly development, blaming the failure of the government to construct a bridge in the area as responsible for the calamity.
The community leader recounted the ordeals of landlords and residents of the area anytime it rained, pointing out the need by the government to expand Aboru road and build a bridge at Cement Bus Stop to avoid such sad incident.
“This rain started almost four or five days ago but the one of last night was one of the heaviest and it started at about 2:15 a.m. and by 3:15 a.m., it came with full force and everywhere was flooded’, he narrated.
“At about 7:30 a.m. or 8:00 a.m., we learnt that an OPC member, who was security guard in one of the gas stations here, was carried away by flood while trying to rescue two children who came to buy gas, but fell into the drain. The gas station had not opened because of the flood as the whole place including the canal had overflowed its banks’.
He added, “The children misplaced their legs and the two of them fell inside the gutter. This OPC boy went and rescued one but in the process of rescuing the second child, he and the boy fell into the canal and that was the end,”.
Penpushing also reports that, Agboghoroma recalled that the community had written several petitions to successive governments in the state from the time of former Governor Babatunde Fashola to the last administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, but no response till date.
