DAMISI OJO, Akure
As residents of Oke-Agbe, headquarters of Akoko Northwest local government area of Ondo State are yet to recover from loss of valuable properties suffered due to devastating rainstorm, another destructive rainstorm on Tuesday wrecked havoc in the town.
It ravaged houses, schools and many properties.
Daily Champion correspondent went round the affected places in the ancient town.
According to two community leaders Chief Akinwale Balogun and Hassan Balogun said the 40 minutes downpour with whirled wind saw people running helter-skelter for their lives.
Many houses were affected and some demolished by the rainstorm at Oge and Aje quarters of the town.
Badly affected were St. Moses Orimolade Primary School where a block of six classrooms was blown off Town hall and many other public buildings like mosque and churches were touched.
Residents were wailing and lamenting the rate of losses recorded in the natural disaster.
Among the victim whose father’s house roof was completely removed was a retired civil servant and the chairman, PCRC, Okeagbe Divisional Police, Chief Owolabi Abanikannda who described the two successive rainstorm within a short period as very destructive said the high cost of building materials might not allowed many to rebuild their houses making them homeless.
He appealed for government assistance by supplying materials,
The monarch of Aje Okeagbe, the Ewi of Aje Oba,Oloruntoba Bello also went round and sympathized with his people saying this disaster was beyond local government, state government but the three tiers of government should come to their aid.
The local government chairman Elder Ayodele Akande, who incidentally is a native of the town assured the victims that NEMA and other government agencies saddled with disasters will come to assess and compensate the victims.
Akande sympathized with the affected people assuring them that government and well- to- do corporate bodies and indivi
