The flood that engulfed parts of Lagos State following torrential rainfall over the last weekend has dislodged corpses from a private mortuary in the Igando area of the state.
The
management of the private facility, Toluwalase Hospital Morgue, located
at Otunba Oladokun Street in the area, raised the alarm when it said
that corpses deposited in the mortuary had been removed due to massive flooding of its premises.
According to the manager of the mortuary, Bolaji Oluwafemi, the area was flood prone and always quick to transform into a lake anytime it rained, lamenting that some of the corpses were seen floating after the flood.
Oluwafemi
added that the State Government had ignored repeated complaints from
the hospital management and other residents living in the area on the
situation in the past.
Due to the neglect
by government, Oluwafemi said they, alongside other residents, hired a
contractor to sand-fill the lowland and divert the flood water to a
nearby drainage, incurring N3 million as expenses for the job.
Oluwafemi, a retired Naval officer, said:
“There
is the lingering need for proper channelization of water and the sand
filling of the lowland in the area. It has paralyzed our business as
everybody has moved out of their houses to live in the available dry
land outside of their premises.
We
have been living outside in our cars. All the tenants and landlords are
out of their houses. On Monday, a woman was searching for her daughter
in the flood while others hurried out of their houses."
Residents
of the area also confirmed what Oluwafemi said as they say that after
the flood, some corpses were seen floating in the flood, suspecting they
were dislodged from the mortuary, while pleading with the state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, to come to their rescue.
See a tweet that testified to the extent of the flood here
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