A four years old girl simply identified as Azizat has been swept away by flood at Fashola Street, Papa Ashafa area of Orile Agege, Lagos.
The public has been charged to help recover the body if found.
The charge was made after the efforts of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, to find the girl failed.
In a statement issued by a top official of NEMA, in Lagos State, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, Azizat lived with her parents before she was swept away.
The statement reads:
NEMA has enjoined residents of Lagos State to look out for the body of a 4 years old girl.
Azizat was swept away by flood water from Fashola Street, Papa Ashafa, in Orile Agege in Lagos State.
Expectedly, the flood water from Fashola Street runs through Aboru; Iyana Ipaja; Command in Lagos State; cross to Ota in Ogun State but end up at Agbara where the canal will discharge into the sea.
NEMA and LASEMA have put resources together in recovery operations as soon as distress alert was received but the body has not been recovered.
This necessitated the call on the people in these areas with credible information on the recovery of the body to call the attention of emergency/security agency in their area if they notice the body.
Azizat lived with her parents located at 38 Fashola Street, off Odebode Street, Papa Ashafa, Orile Agege, but when their house was overtaken by flood water and in an effort to relocate to higher ground with other residents, Azizat mistakenly missed her step into a drainage that was covered with flood water and was swept away.
Recovery operations by emergency agencies are still ongoing.
*Editor’s Note: The picture used is for the purpose of illustration and not that of the incident.
