Flood brings pain in Lagos

• Residents seek govt help as weekend rain flood ground city
TEARS streaming down her face, Madam  Julina Obialla , a resident of Ogungbe Street  in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Council of  Lagos State on Saturday evening  told The Guardian:
“Since the death of my husband three years ago ,  I have struggled with my children,  doing whatever we can including menial jobs  to survive. Now, look at what has befallen us. Where do we turn to now? All that we managed to gather over the years have been washed away in the flood.”
The middle-aged woman was lamenting her woes following the rain in Lagos over the weekend and which was light in some areas, was particularly heavy in the mainland,
The rain and flood sort of reminded  Lagosians  that it was not the dry season yet, that the threat of flooding in many parts of the city remain…

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