Breaking News: Flood kills one , destroys 300 houses in Ogidi

www.odogwublog.com reports that the over 7 hours heavy down pour in Anambra state has killed one businessman inside a Keke Napep and destroyed over 300 homes in Ogidi.
This aside many shops and buildings rendered useless in Onitsha, Obosi and environs. The rain is still falling by 10 :10 am while phone calls are coming from all parts of Anambra including Isu-Aniocha in Awka North , Obosi in Idemmili North and Ekwulobia in Aguata as well as Umunze in Orumba South among others
Founder and President General Odina-ana-Ndigbo traditional and Cultural Organization , Chief Obumneme Okoye confirmed the disaster , saying no movement of vehicles in Ogidi as the old express way has been submerged by flood....................
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www.odogwublog.com recalls that Thursday down pour left no fewer than 20 people declared missing while more than 100 buildings and vehicles were destroyed by flood which ravaged Oduke, Ibollo and Owellea¬ja layouts in Obosi, near Onitsha, Anambra State.
www.odogwublog.com reports that wrong channelling of drainage by a con-struction company that rehabilitated Ezei¬weka road, Awada Obosi in the past lead to a surge of heavy floods into their area in Oduke and Ibollo as well as Ogidi.
That of Thursday evening, torrential rainfall lasted for about two hours but this morning’s own has lasted for over 7 hours still counting.
Angry residents of Oduke layout had earlier blocked the busy Ezeiweka Obosi road that connects travellers to the Onitsha- Owerri highway chanting war songs while vehicular movements were stalled for sev¬eral hours.
Among the properties damaged in the flood included two four-storey buildings still under construction at Owelle Aja while sev¬eral residential buildings, fences, schools, churches and vehicles at Oduke and Ibollo were either submerged completely or pulled down by the rampaging flood.
Chairman of Oduke Landlords Asso¬ciation, Nicholas Okechukwu and his Ibollo counterpart, Chimezie Osuchukwu, in their separate speeches, said that they have been crying out to the Anambra State government to come to their aid since 2013 till now but all to no avail.
They lamented that the problem of the area is man-made disaster and tragedy fore¬told while they have spent all within their re¬sources to handle the situation but help has not come from any outside quarter.
They lamented that that about 10 people have died from the disaster since the prob¬lem started while they have suffered untold hardship and economic losses over the in¬cident.
Putting the estimated loss of properties from the current incident to about N2 billion, they called on the Anambra State government to declare a state of emergency in the layout and address the problem holistically.
Also at the International Electron¬ics Market, Onitsha about 1500 shops and goods worth over N800m were also damaged by flood.
According to the president of the market, Mr. Izuchukwu Okoye, the flood came into the market when the volume could not be contained by the drainages along the Onitsha/Asaba ex¬pressway.
“Goods damaged were mainly from A and B lines and we appeal to the state government to come to our rescue”, Okoye stated.
Contributing, the Secretary of the market, Comrade Damian Ogudike said: “We pay our taxes and levies to the state government. The drainages are the problems and the expectation is that the state government should work on the drainages to be higher than they are now”.
“You can see the traders insisting that the money they paid to the govern-ment should be refunded to them since their problems in the market are not be¬ing solved”, the secretary revealed.