Residents count losses as Osun River rises

Residents surviving on the Osun River successful Osogbo, Osun State, are counting their losses arsenic rising h2o levels person flooded houses and farmlands successful communities located adjacent to the riverbank.

The improvement followed an summation successful rainfall successful the past 4 days and the measurement of h2o successful the Osun River, causing stronger currents downstream and forcing h2o beyond parts of its accustomed channel.

DAILY POST on Sunday observed that immoderate houses on the riverbank person been affected by the rising water, with residents successful immoderate of the affected buildings evacuating their belongings and moving to safer locations.

It was gathered that immoderate residents whose houses person been affected said they had besides started moving retired properties and valuables that remained untouched by the flood, amid concerns that the h2o level could emergence further.

“Some families person temporarily relocated portion monitoring the situation, peculiarly successful areas wherever floodwater has entered residential compounds and buildings adjacent to the river,” a resident, Fatai Akangbe said.

He recalled that a large flooding occurrence successful August 2018 and urged the authorities authorities and applicable authorities to code the river’s capableness earlier further rainfall increases the hazard of further flooding.

The flooding has besides aff...