Contrary to the relief that rainfall brings, residents in Bariga area of Lagos State have been experiencing untold hardship due to heavy flooding in the community whenever it rains.
According to experience of residents in the area, anytime it rains, as much as the people are excited, they are always confronted with the fear of witnessing another unprecedented flooding.
Only few days ago, there was anxiety in the community because of huge pool of water that gathered right from Idi Aba B/stop down the road to Oloja street after a heavy rainfall in the area.
Narrating their ordeal, residents of Olorunkemi street, just along the Oloja street, explained how they have always dreaded the rainy season because of what they always go through in the area whenever it rains.
“Recently, a girl was almost washed away by the flood, that is how massive it is here,” one of the residents in the area, Mrs Kuburat, said.
“The major problem we have in this community is the canal at Bajulaiye because when it overflows, it caused a lot of flooding to places like Oloja.
“And when this happens, it caused a lot of flooding in the area.
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