By Adenitan Akinola
A fierce rainstorm on Friday, 27th January, 2023, destroyed property worth millions of naira in many parts of Osun State, as hundreds of residents were displaced.
In Eripa, Boluwaduro Local Government Area of the state, no fewer than six houses were affected by the rainstorm.
Other affected towns according to the information are Ada in Boripe Local Government and Ikirun in Ifelodun local Government Area of the state.
However, no fewer than one hundred houses including a multi-million naira Civic Center were also wrecked in Ilare-Ijesa, Obokun-East Local Government Development Area, Osun State by the heavy rainstorm.
The storm in a 25 – minute downpour besieged the communities and roved round the streets around 6.00 p.m, on Friday 27th January and vandalized some unquantifiable valuables.
The destroyed properties were Police Station, Churches, Shops and residential buildings.
When pressmen visited the town on Monday, some of the victims whose properties were wrecked by the storm were seen weeping profusely, lamenting the unprecedented hazard.
A major catastrophic incidence was the collapse of an ultra-modern Civic Center, a Community Development Self-help Project built by indigenes of the Community, located along Esa-Odo road, Ilare.
The project, according to the spokesperson of the community, Chief Tope Abiola was the self-help project which the community started about Eight years ago, under the banner of Ilare Development Association (IDA).
While lamenting the hazard, the President of Ilare Development Association, Mr. Samuel Omoyulenu Fabunmi regretted that collapse of the building was a monumental loss to the town.
Speaking in an emotion-laden voice, with tears rolling on his cheeks, Mr. Fabunmi stated that about One Hundred and Twenty Five Million Naira had already been sunk into the project, voluntarily contributed by ilustrious sons and daughters of the town.
Addressing inhabitants of the town who converged on the site of the collapsed building for an inter-religious prayer in the early hours of Monday, monarch of the town, Oba Adejoro Otebolaku, the Owalare of Ilare appealed to indigenes of the town not to be devastated about the disaster, but thank God that there was no any loss of life in the mishap.
He however called on the Federal Government through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to come to the aid of the rain-storm victims and entire community.
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