THERE was panic in Sogunle, Pleasure, Caaso and Kollington areas of Lagos State, on Thursday, following an early morning downpour. Some residents of the Lagos communities drowned during last Sunday’s downpour with many ofthem yet to recover from the trauma of thefloods.
The Thursday rain threw residents of Oyegunmade, Saka, Wuraola Ayinke, Alhaji Ajani, Fabukade, Ajisegiri and Olori at Sogunle into serious panic and confusion.
Some of the residents, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune, lamented the pains thatthey had been suffering, since the Sunday downpour and expressed their fears at the Thursday rain.
A resident, who identified himself as Damilola Motunrayo, informed the Nigerian Tribune that two residents of Sogunle were swept away by the Sunday downpour, while properties worth several millions of naira were lost.
Motunrayo also stated that some of the residents, four days after the rain, were stillscooping water out of their apartments, as many of them had “nowhere to relocate to. “
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