A rainfall within the early hours of Thursday, led to prevailing overpouring in different portions of Lagos Surrounding, escape commuters and motorists stranded.
The floodwaters took over main roads, together with the Ojota-Yaba Limited-access highway, In the past Palace Manner, Iyana-Oworo, and Egbeda disciplines.
A resident, Mr Oduche Azih, instructed PUNCH Metro that the overpouring in his Okota branch was once excess and led to by means of the whole blockage of over one kilometre utmost on the communal struggle bridge at Fasheun Force.
He mentioned, “Lately, we had overpouring, once more, in our boulevard and all the neighbourhood. I’m certain that the sorrowful information from prolonged distances will get started coming in nearest because the citizens get a deal with at the demolition.
Lately, as in all alternative homogeneous earlier conditions, my complete compound was once between ankle-deep and knee-deep relying at the location. Floodwater seeped in the course of the partitions into my lower-level lounge.”
He requested, “Is it possible that the Lagos State Government and its Oshodi/Isolo and Alimosho Local Government counterparts are unaware of this situation?”
In numerous movies posted on social media platforms, citizens expressed frustration and fury on the recurrence of the condition. In one of the movies, pedestrians and automobiles had been perceivable navigating the flooded disciplines, occasion some automobiles had been perceivable trapped within the aqua.
An X consumer, Lucy Nkem, reacting to the rainfall, wrote, “The rain in Lagos was just too heavy. It was really difficult going out today.”
The overpouring was once additionally mentioned to have led to visitors congestion, stretching from Alapere to the 3rd Mainland Bridge.
This was once additionally a homogeneous ocular on the Egbeda-Akowonjo Highway as automobiles had been riding in the course of the inundation at a gradual moment.
A resident who recognized himself merely as Olawale lamented the recurrence of overpouring within the branch.
He mentioned, “This is not the first time we’re experiencing flooding in this area. The government needs to do something about our drainage system. We can’t continue like this.”
Any other resident within the branch, Idowu Olabisi, additionally narrated her enjoy pronouncing, “It was tiring for me going to the office today. The flood was so terrible, and it did not even rain for up to an hour. How can a city like Lagos be so vulnerable to flooding?”
In every other submit on X with the title Eldivyn, an branch within the In the past Palace Manner was once perceivable flooded.
“This is Ago Palace. Someone shared this with me. I’m sure if you’re on the Island, you’re seeing something similar as well. Lagos has a problem, and if we like, we can close our eyes and pretend it doesn’t. Small rain and the entire city turns into a cesspool. Sad way to live,” he wrote.
In the meantime, PUNCH Metro amassed that some motorists had been pressured to landscape their automobiles on main roads as they had been not able to pressure in the course of the inundation because of the amount of aqua.
“It was like a disaster zone today. Some vehicles were even stuck, while some were perked because of the volume of the water. It could damage their engine if they continue driving in the flood,” a pedestrian who most well-liked anonymity instructed our correspondent.
The Lagos Surrounding Govt had previous introduced the beginning of development at the just about five-kilometre Device 44 drainage channel alongside the Mobil Highway, Ogombo, and Ikota, geared toward controlling overpouring within the Lekki branch forward of the wet season.