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Hundreds of motorists were marooned at Ugbowo on Lagos-Benin Highway Wednesday during heavy downpour that led to flooding of the area. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports many vehicles broke down on the flooded highway while most passengers had to disembark from vehicles to wade through the flood to their destinations.

Commercial vehicles drivers cashed in on the situation to hike fares from as little as N100 to between N400 and N500. A motorist who identified himself as Godwin Osahon called on Edo governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, to urgently address perennial flooding in the area urgently as it has become a threat to lives and property.

“What is responsible for this is that drainages around here have not been desilted for a long time. I thought we had overcome this flooding issue with regular desilting because the drainages are there but they are all blocked. More than 2 hours after the rain had stopped, the road is still flooded. I think the state government is not doing enough. It has abandoned us the masses to our fate and that is not fair,’’ he said.

Another motorist, Benedict Alasan, who also attributed the flooding to non-desilting of drainages, noted that lack of continuity of the storm water project started by the previous Adams Oshiomhole administration was responsible for the flood. According to him, “years before the coming of this administration, we never experienced this kind of flood in Ugbowo.’’ (NAN)

SOURCE: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/motorists-gnash-teeth-behind-wheels-as-flood-paralyses-part-of-benin/amp/

Lagos - Benin highway flooded and they are blaming Obaseki instead of this man. As at the last time I checked, Lagos Benin highway was a federal road?

Who is afraid of this man?

Op your first picture is not Benin...Benin is not as developed as that

blamingthedevil:
Op your first picture is not Benin...Benin is not as developed as that

Thanks...post updated.