OSUN: Residents of Onirodunnu, Gbodofon, Baruwa, others lament as flood wreck havoc in Osogbo (photo)

Residents of Onirodunnu, Gbodofon and Baruwa Area of Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo, the Osun State capital witnessed floods from heavy downfall and wrecked havoc on dwellers in part of the areas.

The area were flooded as a result of the recent downfall on Friday 30th of August, 2019 when floods waters started sipping into residential apartments which caused people living close to the bank of the Osun River to start evacuating their personal belongings out of their houses at midnight.

One of the residents of the affected area, Olawale Jonson stated that, they never knew Osun River could overflow to that extent, despite most of the house owners had taken time to build their houses at safer areas in distance to Osun river.

Osun river, Gbodofon area, Osogbo

While another office owner at Baruwa junction, Mr. Adebayo Olatunbosun told OSUN REPORTERS that, some of the workshops, offices and houses at Gbodofon, Onirodunnu area of Baruwa street, Block Industry located at Asoju-Oba of Gbodofon’s house were affected among others.

Olatunbosun also called on the government to come to their aid as there is limit to what can be done by the residents.

“It was an unfortunate situation that such happened, relevant authorities should come to our aid as there is little we could do to salvage the situation,” Adebayo added.

Recall that, the administration of former governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola had declared a 90-day environmental state of emergency throughout the state upon his resumption into office in the year 2010 when the same incident occurred almost at every part of Osogbo that claimed lives and property, while dredging of streams and rivers especially in Osogbo was part of the focus of Aregbesola’s administration.