Lagos To Tackle Flooding Challenges

The Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources has said several constructions and dredging have been mounted upon towards bringing about a lasting solution to the challenge of flooding.

According to a statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Kunle Adeshina, the ministry had already initiated the construction and concrete lining of the nine-kilometer Akinola/Aboru drainage channel.

Adeshina remarked that the construction, with a culmination period of 24 months, would permanently solve the Aboru flooding problem, which he said dated back to 1989.

He added that in addition to the work on the Akinola Aboru channel, the ministry had begun work in other areas.

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The statement said, “Prominent among these are 13 secondary channels: Abraham Adesanya Collector Drain/Dredging of System 63, Lekki Expressway to de-flood Abraham Adesanya Estate, Lekki Expressway, Ogombo, and its adjoining areas.

“The Freedom Way Channel, Lekki that takes away flood from the Lekki-Epe Expressway, part of Itedo and part of Admiralty way straight into the Lagos Lagoon.”

Eko Hot Blog gathered that the ministry neighborhoods included the Osapa Lagoon Channel, to de-flood Ologolo Lekki Expressway at Jakande and the Kusenla regional roads, the drains from Odugunwa Street through Buraimoh Alli Fetuga, Ogunmekan Onabola, Charly Boy, amongst others.

Adeshina made the assurance that painstaking actions were being made to ensure that flash floods disappeared after a maximum of five hours, following such rainfalls.

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