Flood takes over Badagry road, motorists, others groan

Flood caused by an early rainfall on Monday morning made the Angel Gabriel part of Ikoga-Mowo Road, Badagry, impassable for vehicles, forcing some students and workers going to schools and offices to abort their journeys.

Our correspondent reports that some cars which tried to wade through also got stuck in the flood, leading to gridlock, despite efforts of some good Samaritans to clear the road.

Some aides of Prince Sesi Whingah, the lawmaker representing Badagry Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives using pumping machine to remove water from Ikoga Mowo road.

Miss Folashade Jimoh, a student of a school located in Ikoga-Zebbe, Lagos, said she returned home when the bus taking them to school got stuck in the flood.

“After spending few minutes inside the bus, the driver asked us to come down from his bus into the flood.

“When we couldn’t continue with the journey, I had to go back home. It was better to go back.

“We are in a terrible situation in this part of Lagos State, the deplorable state of this road is frustrating,” she said.

A commercial bus driver, Belawu Adigun said he spent hours in traffic due to the flood.

“The state of the road is getting worse daily, we have cried to government to rehabilitate it but they have refused to listen to us.

“There is no day I don’t go to mechanic workshop to repair my bus,” he said.

Mr Adetela Olaosebikan, a drycleaner, appealed to the federal government to repair the road as a matter of urgency.
According to him, the road links Lagos to Ogun State from Badagry, and it is sad that residents and motorists go through hardship plying it.

Our correspondent reports that the arrival of some aides of Prince Sesi Whingah, the lawmaker representing Badagry Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, later saved the situation in the flooded area.

“We arrived here at 8:15a.m and discovered that vehicles could not pass through the road.

“With the use of pumping machine, we discovered that the water was still coming back to the spot causing flood.

“We bought empty bags of cement and loaded them with sand and used them to block the water from coming back to the road and started pumping out the water,”
Mr Sunday Posu, one of the aides, said.

It was reported that commercial drivers and motorists plying the road had, on June 29, called on the Federal Government to intervene, given its deplorable state.

They told our correspondent in Badagry that they were experiencing hardship due to the bad state of the road linking the town to Ado-Odo in Ogun.