The Chairman of Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo, Mr. Victor Emuankhagbon, on Saturday confirmed that six deaths were recorded in the flooded communities in the area.
Emuankhagbon stated this when he received a delegation of National Emergency Management Agency and officials of the Federal Ministry of Health at Ubiaja.
He said from the casualties, one of the bodies was yet to be recovered from the flooded area.
He said no fewer than 42 communities, 8,000 houses and 35,150 were affected by the flood.
The council boss, who also faulted the time of response by the concerned agencies, called for a change of attitude in the manner specific responsibilities were handled by those mandated to implement them.
He also called for effective measures against natural disaster such as flooding.
Also in Anambra State, Okechukwu Osadebe, the 18-year-old son of the late highlife maestro, Chief Stephen Osadebe, has lost his life in a flood disaster in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the younger Osadebe died on Thursday in the Osadebe’s Atani country home in Ogbaru when he was swept away by the flood around 7:30pm.
The death of Osadebe brings to four, the number of lives so far lost to flood disaster in Anambra in the last one week.
Mother of the deceased, Mrs. Amaechi Osadebe, told NAN in Atani on Friday that Okechulwu was returning home with two other persons when the flash flood overwhelmed them.
She explained that it was the high current and turbulence of the water that made it difficult for the two other boys to pull him out of the water.
The transition chairman of Ogbaru LGA, Mr. Arinzechukwu Awogu, who visited the family, described the death as a tragedy to the whole Ogbaru community.
In Bayelsa State, Governor Seriake Dickson has sought the collaboration of the Nigerian Air Force to undertake emergency evacuation of flood victims, as many communities have been submerged by flood in the state.
Dickson made the appeal on Thursday when the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, and his entourage paid him a courtesy visit in Yenagoa.
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Na woah my condolences to their family RIP.