The torrential rain in Abuja in the early hours of yesterday, Friday, June 23, 2023, claimed a life, with 116 houses submerged.
Though a statement released yesterday from the office of Abbas Idriss, the Director General of the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), had earlier accounted for the number of houses submerged by the flood but stated that no life was lost, findings from MUK TV reveal that yet-be-identified man died in the flood.
This afternoon, a corpse, according to Premium Times, was recovered from the canal by the entrance of Trademore Estate in Abuja following the flood incident yesterday.
The estate, located in the Lugbe axis of the capital city, along the airport road, was flooded after a downpour in the early hours of Friday.
Residents of the estate discovered a corpse believed to be that of a man whom they saw struggling to come out of a sky-blue Peugeot 406 vehicle when the flood started.
stuck beneath the drain pathway by the entrance of the estate.
“We saw him on the top of his vehicle trying to avoid the flood, but later we did not see him again,” a motorcyclist recalled after the corpse of the man was pulled out.
Lugbe, the suburb town of the capital city of Abuja, has been experiencing a flood during every rainy season, according to the residents of the area, with many calling for the Authorities to tackle the incessant flooding.
