By Damilare Adeleye
Reports have emerged that flood has submerged the popular Trademore Estate in the Lugbe area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja following heavy downpour on Sunday evening.
Consequently, two persons have reportedly been swept by the flood.
The flood took over the estate located on Airport Road in Abuja after a heavy downpour on Sunday evening and early Monday morning, which lasted for some hours, rendering thousands of people homeless and properties destroyed.
In a video circulated on Monday morning by an unidentified woman whose voice was heard, the estate was seen almost completely submerged by the flood, while some properties were seen outside homes inside the rain.
“This is Trademore Estate, federal government we are pleading, two persons just died now, the water took them away. Two persons swept away now by this water, please we are begging. FCT minister come and do something, we are appealing.
“See the Police Station is gone. These are people’s residences, and water is everywhere. Minister of FCT, Honourable Wike, please come to Trademore Estate, people are dying. Two people just died this morning, what a pity,” she said in the video.
This incident is not strange as flooding in the estate has been a perennial occurrence every rainy season.
Successive FCT Administration had promised to tackle it, but nothing has been done.
The FCDA had announced last year that it would demolish structures on waterways in the estate and other estates across the FCT, but residents of the affected areas vehemently opposed it.