Most residents in the Gateway Sparklight Estate area, opposite Mountain Top University, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, were unable to go out to carry out their various daily activities on Thursday after a flood took over the main road connecting them to the highway.
Our correspondent, who visited the area on Thursday morning, could not pass through the road that connected the estate to the expressway.
Motorcyclists, car owners and other pedestrians were left stranded on either side of the link road.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the downpour from Wednesday night till the early hours of Thursday, left many areas flooded in Ogun and Lagos states, as many described the rainfall as one of a kind.
Many shop owners on the roadside in the Sparklight estate area – a furniture shop, drinks shop and others, were sacked as the water level reached at least half of the heights of the shops.
A motorcycle was seen to have been abandoned by its owner, who might have fled for his life.
A resident, identified as Jide, who was carrying his bag and wanted to go to work, turned back, saying he could not risk his life.
“It’s better to take the pictures and send them to my boss than for me to enter this water,” our correspondent heard him saying as he turned back to the estate.
Another resident, Michael Adams, who spoke with PUNCH Metro, said, “It is very risky like this. One Igbo boy selling gas died here about two years ago. He entered the water with his bike while carrying gas cylinders. The flood carried him, he was brought out dead.”
The situation further became dramatic when a man already came with a fishing net, cutlass and other equipment, and began hunting for fishes that were seen moving in the waters
Two women went inside the estate to bring fishing baskets and joined the men in the fishing.
“If we cannot go out, we can stay at home and cook fish,” a man who did not give his name, said.
