It had rained earlier on last night all through to this morning before it ceased. Many thought that would be it at least for today. Unfortunately, that was not to be as the rains started all over again by about 12.30pm today and came down heavily for 4hours non-stop. The popular Nkemba drainage along Abak Road in Uyo had maxed out in just an hour into the down pour. What you have below are pictures of some of the scenes in this area that have been seriously affected by the floods.

The submerged buildings are those of a nursery/primary school located just by where the drainage passes through. This happened when the school children were just closing for the day. The main entrance to the storey building had a wall of water close to about 5metres, capable of swallowing even an adult, everyone left in the building both pupils and staff had to climb upstairs where they were evacuated from a safer position as shown in the pictures.

On a side note, the Nkemba drainage was designed to capture all of the water flowing through Abak Road and its environs coming all the way from Ibom Plaza up to Babangida Avenue, which stretches about 1km. Over the years, numbering close to 9 by now, the drainage has proved incapable of handling the floods that accompany any rain lasting even for 40mins and the government is yet to do anything about it.

A filling station in the area

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Na wa o flood everywhere. Gov Akpabio should do something about it