Heavy Down Pour Storm Ilorin, Destroyed several Houses - community cries out, call for government assistance. Yesterday, it was a rainy experience for people within Ilorin metropolis as rain stormed the city and selectively destroyed several properties. The rainy experience was not favorable. The SATCOMMEDIA learnt that the rainstorm that occurred on Saturday night also displaced many people at Oke Ogun community, in Edun, Idiagbon community, in Emirs road, Isale-Gambari among other affected areas. Though no lives were lost in the incident. An eyewitness from the community affirmed the incident and call on government for assistance, as many people left were devastated with little or without hope of assistance from any quarters. He however, further stressed that, any assistance for non-governmental organizations would go along way in restoring the lost hope and further placed them back to normal life.
Reacting to the development, the DG Bureau of Land, Kwara State, Lawyer Bolaji Edun Said it is imperative for all and Sundry to adhere strictly to the Measures and guidelines put in place by the Federal and State Governments to arrest the Spread of the Covid 19, noting regular hand washing, Social distancing and Stay at home must be encouraged.
Lawyer Edun Maintained that the Present adminstration under Governor AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq will not relent in it's determination to make the State free of the dread virus and the palliatives to Cushion the effects of the lockdown would be unpatially distributed.
Responding to the gesture, worshipers in the affected mosques Commended Lawyer Edun for his gesture of facilitating the fumigation exercise, stressing that the disinfecting such areas will aid in taming the Pandemic
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