Residents will keep experiencing flash floods – Lagos govt warns

The Lagos State Government says residents will keep experiencing flash flooding due to the realities of climate change and other environmental factors.

This is as the government maintained its commitment to ramp up infrastructure to provide lasting solutions across the state.

The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made this statement during a television interview on Monday.

Wahab explained that in the last two years, the ministry had cleaned over 50 kilometres of secondary collectors and dredged or maintained about 38 primary channels across Lagos.

He also recalled the recent 14-hour torrential rainfall that affected parts of Ikorodu, noting that remedial measures were immediately deployed.

The commissioner further stated that a contractor had dammed the downstream area to allow construction to proceed, but was instructed to free it once the rains began so that storm water could recede.