Anambra State received what looked like a warning signal from floods on Sunday when a short fence demarcating the entry and exit way of the government house from a canteen situated inside the government house was pulled down by flood with water entering many offices.
Our reporter gathered that offices of some aides to the Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi, were not spared by the flood as water condemned most files and documents in the offices, including that of the senior special assistant to the governor on media and communication, Mr Valentine Obienyem.
It was gathered that the pulling down of the fence by flood made it easier for flood water rushing at high speed from the main road to find its way straight into the offices which are close to the executive chambers of the government house, and in the same axis with the state governor’s office.
The havoc happened on Sunday at about 4pm after what was described as ‘not too serious rainfall’ which took the greater part of the day as it kept drizzling for hours.
Meanwhile, some residents of Awka, the state capital, were also sacked from their homes by flood on Saturday and Sunday, while their property were also damaged.
At Zik Avenue, close to NITEL, flood was said to have moved a Toyota jeep belonging to the medical director of Harmony Hospital – which he parked in front of his hospital – down to an alley where it could not move it further.
LEADERSHIP reports that in a compound at Molokwu Drive near UNIZIK junction, flood sacked its resident, comprising about eight families, while a food vendor who had just finished preparing food meant for the next days’ sales got an unlikely customer as the flood swept it away.
A source also told LEADERSHIP that Saturday’s flood also caused a crack on the wall of the fence of the Anambra State Command of the Nigeria Police Force.
It would be recalled that just a week ago, residents of Lagos State suffered the same fate, though at a bigger dimension, leading to the loss of several lives and property.?