The Governor of Ogun State has come out to say that the flooding in Isheri-North, a border area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, is beyond the capacity of the state government.
Residents of Isheri North Government Reserved Area, also known as the Isheri North Residential Scheme, Lagos State, are currently lamenting the flooding of the area, located along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Kunle Somorin, who is the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, released a statement on Wednesday to the public. In a statement, the governor spoke while receiving a four-man team of the Africa Finance Corporation in Abeokuta, the state capital.
According to the statement, Abiodun welcomed the plan of the corporation to partner with the government in the reconstruction of Attan-Lusada-Agbara Road.
According to Punch, The statement read: “I stopped by at Isheri where we have a lot of estates and the state of road infrastructure is deplorable. Currently, the place is totally flooded and the entire estates have been submerged.
“I told the flood victims that this place required us to declare a state of emergency and we are actually going to do that because the problem is beyond the state,”
Also in the statement, Governor Abiodun went on to say that his government had since realised that the biggest issue for residents was the state of infrastructure, especially the state ecology and bad road network, which gets worse during the rainy season.
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He said: “The area is mixed with industries and residential estates. There is a lot of development going on there and people have abandoned their houses; beautiful houses. This is because the roads are non-existing, there are no drainage channels, houses are built on flood plains, so we need help,”
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