The Chairman of the Oyo State Task Force on Flood Prevention and Management, Dr. Bolanle Wahab, has disclosed that a total of 2,105 buildings were washed away by? flood disasters which ravaged the city of Ibadan on August 26.
He also said that a total sum of N4.31 billion would be required by the State government to construct 25 bridges and culverts in all the affected areas across all the 11 local government areas of the State capital.
The Task Force was constituted by Governor Abiola Ajimobi on September 9, following the havoc wreaked by the flood occasioned by the over seven hours of torrential rain which caught the residents of Ibadan napping.
Wahab, while presenting the report of his task force to the governor at the Executive Council Chambers of the Governor’s Office on Tuesday, described the flood as most disastrous at 187.5 mm, the highest in the city since 1951.
The Task Force Chairman, who disclosed that over N100 billion properties were damaged, said that the flood resulted in loss of several lives, community disruptions and immobilisation, several social dislocation, grief, fear, anxiety conflict as well as damage to urban infrastructure.
He heaped the cause of the disaster on the flagrant disregard for urban and regional planning law, as well as the lack of master plan for the city of Ibada