The flood that accompanied heavy rainfall in Ado Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, from Sunday evening to the early hours of Monday displaced many residents.
Olajide Borode, the General Manager of the Ekiti State Emergency Management Agency, confirmed the development.
He said, “The agency had begun moves to get first hand information on the extent of damage caused by the flooding, our officials are, at present, visiting the areas affected, so that we can get the correct information that can guide the government’s action in resolving the incident.”
In a related development, hundreds of passengers and scores of vehicles were stranded on Monday following the collapse bridge linking Minna and Bida in Niger State.
Motorists were now left in dilemma as crossing from Kakapangi to Minna or vice versa has become almost impossible.
The collapse of the bridge was a result of a heavy downpour in the last week.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a long queue of vehicles had formed on both sides of the road.
According to the findings, some of the vehicles plying the road either returned to Bida or Minna.
In the same vein, those coming from the Bida end were forced to follow the longer route from Lemu to Zungeru and down to Minna.
The vehicles from the Minna end, according to the findings, turned back to follow the longer route of Minna-Lapai-Agaie–Bida road.
Articulated vehicles that could not turn at the damaged section of the road hired locals to evacuate their goods into hired vehicles at the other end.
Some of those caught in the web of the tragedy were those going to Bida to felicitate with the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, on his 70th birthday and 19th year of ascension of the throne of his forbears.
The Commissioner for Works, Alhaji Mohammed Sani, could not be reached for comment.
The Niger Government on September 18, 2018, awarded a contract for the dualisation of the 84kms Minna – Bida road to an indigenous construction firm, Dantata and Sawoe.
Experts however said that the work had only reached 5 per cent of execution.
