Flood hits four Kwara LGAs

Date: 2019-09-22

Four local government areas of Kwara State were on Wednesday night ravaged by flood, resulting from a downpour earlier in the evening.

Our correspondent gathered that valuables worth millions of naira were destroyed.

The rain started at about 5pm and lasted till around 9pm, causing untold hardship and losses to residents of the state capital.

Several acres of farmland and crops were also said to have been destroyed in communities such as Ipata-Jebba and Fangan in the Moro Local GovernmentArea; Belle, Bacita, Yalwa, Gbere and Fanagu.

Residents of Amilegbe, Omosebi, Cocacola and Offa Garage were also affected.

Also affected were business premises like the old KWACCIMA building on Unity Road, Omowunmi Cooperative Society building on Obbo Road, shops, residential houses, churches and mosques.

It was also gathered that many occupants of affected buildings along Obbo and Unity roads, Ilorin, stayed indoors till Thursday afternoon as water had enveloped their buildings, preventing them from going out.

Items destroyed by the flood included cars, food items, documents and electronic gadgets.

Some victims called on the state government to liaise with the Federal Government to find a lasting solution to the problem, lamenting that the flood had persisted because the channelisation project on Asa river was yet to be completed.

The Baale of Ipata-Jebba, Alhaji Aremu Adedoyin, who spoke when a Kwara State Government delegation visited the areas, said, "Flooding has become a yearly occurrence along the banks of Jebba River."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kamaldeen Kehinde     Akeem Olatunji     Isapa     Abdulwahab Oba     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Ilorin International Airport     Adeleke Ogungbe     Jelili Yusuf     National Party Of Nigeria     Dele Momodu     Salman Suleiman     SGBN     Saka Saadu     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Mustapha Olanipekun     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Oke Sunna     Doyin Group     FERMA     Salami Adekunle     March 18     Idris Amosa Saidu     Eghe Igbinehin     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Tsaragi/Share     Gbugbu     Olayinka Are     Razak Atunwa     Simeon Sayomi     Seun Bolaji     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Col. Taiwo     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Gbenga Awoyale     Third Estate     Falokun-Oja     Osi     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Dan Iya     Shuaibu Yaman     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Jide Oyinloye     Kwara Central     Baba Isale     Jebba     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Ajidagba     Crystal Corner Shops     Teachers Specific Allowance     Shagari     Kwara 2019     Wahab Isa     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Simon Sayomi     Dan Masanin     Oke-opin     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Yoruba     Gbajabiamila     Pius Abioje     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Pakata     Nupe     Modibbo Kawu     Gobir     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Durosinlohun Kawu     Rafiu Ajakaye     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Ajase-Ipo     Old Oyo     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     LABTOP    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     TVC Female National Debate     Onilorin     Ahmed \'Lateef     NIPR     Adedeji Onimago     KWATMA     Oniwa     Sunday Fagbemi     Kwara Polytechnic     Iyabo Adewuyi     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Ijagbo Health Centre     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     March 28     Yakubu Shaaba     Tunji Moronfoye     Obayomi Azeez     Ayodele Olaosebikan     JMK Construction Company Limited     Ibrahim Mashood     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Dorcas Afeniforo     Quran     Tunji Folami     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Saka Keji     Computer Based Test     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Oke-Kura     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Senate     Chikanda     Council Of The Wise     Jamiu Oyawoye     Idowu Laro     Tayo Alao     Oyawoye     Atiku     Kannike     HICA     Bisi Oyeleke     Kwara Central     LEAH Charity Foundation     Benin Republic     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Offa     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Read With Me     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Omar Gambari     Sherif Shagaya     Medview Airlines     Ilorin West     Sodiya     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Saka Saadu     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     3MTT     Aminu Ado Bayero     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Okedare     Tunde Akanbi     Emir Of Shonga     Reuben Paraje     KWIRS     Bayo Lawal     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Suleiman Ajadi     Salihu Ajibola Ajia