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.

Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Saadu Yusuf     Adedeji Onimago     Basit Olatunji     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Oba Abdulrahim     SWAN     Www.Kwarareports.com     Agbarigidoma     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Isapa     Bisi Oyeleke     Gbemi Saraki     Bahago     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Grillo     Voices Of Tomorrow     Balogin Alanamu     Adeleke Ogungbe     Kaosarah Adeyi     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Olupako     Age AbdulKareem     Saliu Oluwole     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Facebook     Yekini Adio     Kwha.gov.ng     NYSC     Salami Adekunle     Gamji Members Association     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Sobi Hill     CT Ayeni     Pategi     Laboratory-to-Product     Omu Aran     Oloye     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Onilu     Matthew Okedare     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Muhammadu Buhari     Sobi FM     Borgu     Makama Of Ilorin     Third Estate     Afonja     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Kwara 2023     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Yinka Aluko     Oluronke Adeyemi     Baboko     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Offorjama     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Shuaibu Yaman     Olabode George Towoju     Kunle Okeowo     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Diagnostic Centre     Kehinde Boyede     Kwara State Fire Service     Amos Justus Sayo     Bola Shagaya     Balogun Gambari     Oniye     Atiku     National Party Of Nigeria     KWSIEC     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Yusuf Abdulkadir    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     CACOVID Palliatives     Goodluck Jonathan     Bashirat Bola Bello     Kishira     Muhammed Akanbi     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Okin Malt     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Malete     Doyin Group     Senate President     Tsaragi-Share     Ibrahim Labaika     Bola Magaji     Ilorin International Airport     Ramadhan     KFA     Seni Saraki     National Party Of Nigeria     Babaita     KWASEIC     Guber Aspirant     Trader Moni     Third Estate     Lola Ashiru     Ola Falade     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Elerin Of Adanla     Isiaq Khadeejah     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Kwara     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Kazeem Adekanye     Yakubu Shaaba     Frootify     Lanre Issa Onilu     Ope Saraki     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Bankole Omishore     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Ibrahim Oniye     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     KWSIEC     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Haliru Yahaya     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Isaac Gbenle     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     NIRSAL     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     Elections     Okiki     Okedare     Saidu Isa     Oluwatoyin Lukman     KSIRS     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Gaa Olobi     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Edret Sabi Abel     John Mayokun Dada     Kehinde Baale     NIPOGA     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Kale Bayero