The government orders evacuation as Ondo suffers greatly by flooding

The flood that struck several areas of Ondo town, Ondo State, on Friday ruined property worth at millions of naira.

After many hours of intense rain on that fateful day, the ancient city experienced flooding.

Itanla, Oka, Odo Ijomu, Bethlehem, and the Akure-Ondo Expressway are a few of the places impacted.

It was learned that the storm had flooded numerous homes and cars in the impacted streets, forcing many inhabitants to leave their homes.

However, there was no loss of life in the incident.

Reacting, the state government said it had ordered evacuation in the affected areas and rapid response had begun to halt further damages.

This was contained in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Environment, Mr Oyeniyi Oseni on Saturday.

The statement declared that the government had put every necessary machinery in place to avert the flood in the future.

According to the statement, Amphibious Excavators had been deployed into critical erosion-prone areas in the state for dredging.

The commissioner informed that “the cause of the flooding on Friday also could be attributed to development on waterways in an estate at Fagun and along Ife road area of the community.”

He further stated that his ministry was going to collaborate with the relevant section of the government to address the unlawful development along the waterways.

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