By Akin Ogunmola
Residents of Elemi Housing Estate on Afao road in Ado Ekiti, the state capital have appealed to the state government to come to their aid as the heavy rainfall of Monday rendered the community heavily flooded.
According to one resident, Dr David Falade, the unprecedented flooding rendered almost all the roads in the estate impassable to both vehicles and pedestrians as well as wash away crops on their gardens and flooded many houses.
He explained that in order to forestall drowning in the flash flood, many of the residents had to seek shelter outside the estate waiting for the flooding to recede.
The resident noted that despite that Elemi Housing Estate houses two state government owned institutions – a model college and a nursery primary school, there’s neither a tarred road nor drainages in the estate.
According to him, the residents who have been levying themselves to maintain the roads have been overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem particularly during the rainy seasons and are therefore appealing to the state government and the State Emergency Management Agency – SEMA to pay an urgent visit to see at first hand the appalling situation of the roads on the government owned estate.
Dr Falade showed pictures and videos of the massive flooding of the roads and people’s homes to newsmen and said that the residents would petition Ekiti State Housing Corporation, the government agency that is the landlord of Elemi Housing Estate to be more proactive so as to make life comfortable for the residents.