Not less than a hundred residents in Osun State have been sacked from their homes after a heavy downpour on Tuesday evening has caused flooding which wreaked serious havoc in the community.<\/p>\n
The residents of Ifedapo community, palace road in Ofatedo, Egbedore Local Government area were ejected from their homes as a result of the flood.<\/p>\n
The flood was said to have rendered more than 100 residents homeless, killed livestock, washed farms away and destroyed property worth millions in the community.<\/p>\n
Most of the residents have abandoned their homes while their properties were still inside their houses.<\/p>\n
Journalists<\/a> gathered that some courageous men saved several children from drowning. Some other people also struggled to retrieve their important documents, particularly certificate.<\/p>\n Mr. Adedayo Kolawole, one of the residents of the area whose house was affected, attributed the flooding to lack of drainage in the Aje market, an international market owned by the state government.<\/p>\n Kolawole urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the State Emergency Management Agency to come to their rescue.<\/p>\n According to him: \u201cThis area is prone to flooding because of lack of drainage around the Aje International market owned by the state government. We complained to the state government but nothing was done.<\/p>\n \u201cThe damage it caused in the community was so much. It\u2019s one of the biggest floodings we have experienced in recent time. The flood affected mostly the people living along the Palace road, in Ofatedo here.\u201d<\/p>\n Another victim, Mrs. Amina Badejoko said \u201cthe flood displaced many families. People are making a frantic effort to save some of their properties.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not less than a hundred residents in Osun State have been sacked from their homes after a heavy downpour on Tuesday evening has caused flooding which wreaked serious havoc in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":54872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14877,1661],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Flood-in-Edo-1.jpg?fit=702%2C336&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60443,"url":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/flood-hundreds-of-people-become-homeless-again-in-kogi\/","url_meta":{"origin":59937,"position":0},"title":"Flood: Hundreds of People Become Homeless Again In Kogi","author":"Damilare Salami","date":"September 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hundreds of people in areas of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital and other parts of the confluence state, have been forced out of their homes as rising water levels continue to encroach on residences. 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