After Warning of Impending Flood, Video Emerges as Water Takes Over Computer Village

After Warning of Impending Flood, Video Emerges as Water Takes Over Computer Village

  • A commercial hub in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos, has been taken over by flood, keeping commuters stranded
  • Water takes over the Obafemi Awolowo Way in the popular Computer Village in the commercial city of west Africa
  • The disaster came up two weeks after the state government warned the people of the state to prepare for impending flood in the coming days

Computer village, Ikeja - A viral video has shown the Obafemi Awolowo Way, a commercial hub in Computer Village Ikeja Lagos, being taken over by flood.

The video, which was shared by The Cable on its verified Twitter, showed the ever-busy road taken over by water and commuters stranded.

Lagos Flood/Babajide Sanwo-Olu/Computer Village/Ikeja/Lagos
Flood takes over Obafemi Awolowo Way in Lagos Photo Credit: @thecableng
Source: Twitter

Earlier this month, the state government alerted residents of the state, especially those living around the Ogun river banks, to relocate upland.

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The government also directed that property owners and developers should suspend any physical development without compliance with the processes and procedures that the government has laid down.

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The statement added that this would help provide habitable structures across the state.

Two weeks after, rain fell and took over the Computer Village, a commercial hub at the state capital, Ikeja.

See the video below:

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