*Blame Aregbesola for the flood- PDP
Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has described the flood
that wreaked havoc in Osogbo, the state capital after the Eid-El-Kabir Sallah
as devastating and advised people of the state to desist from indiscriminate
dumping of refuse on the water ways.
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| Gov Aregbesola at Rasco area during the tour of flooded areas |
Speaking during his visit to affected areas including Oke-Onitea,
Rasco, Fiwasaye and Gbomi, the governor commiserated with the relatives of the person
who loss his life in the flood and also sympathised with those who lost
properties.
The Governor said the flood occurrence took the state by
surprise given the heavy investments of his administration on flood prevention
since 2011.
"Considering our efforts in the past, we never expected
this kind of flood. Our government deeply regret the flooding that has affected
our people," he said.
After the tour which took him to all the areas affected
Aregbesola said, "We have been quite committed to ensuring absence of this
calamity since the advent of our administration as we have been regularly
dredging the waterways on annual basis and as a matter of fact, we are still
very much indebted to those who normally work with us to ensure cleaning of our
waterways."
The governor attributed the development to what he called the
negative impact of people's activities on the environment, adding that a huge
accumulation of wastes remains a major invitation to flood.
But the opposition party in the state blamed governor
Aregbesola for the loss of lives and properties insisting that the governor
must explain what he did with the ecological funds given to the state.
The Publicity Secretary of a faction of the Peoples’
Democratic Party, Mr Sunday Bisi accused the governor of swindling the state
with his project on the dredging of waterways that could not stop the flood.
According to him, “APC swindled the state of several
billions of naira under the guise of constructing drainages and clearing of
waterways. It is quite disappointing that Osogbo roads can be turned to ponds
despite the confessed huge funds allegedly spent on flood control, how can a
government play politics with human lives”.
“We wonders what will happen to the other towns in the state
when the state capital is witnessing such a disaster and this is because the
state is being run by one person without commissioners and local government
chairmen whose statutory role is to take care of some of these responsibilities”,
he added.
Osun PDP sympathises with the people of the state over their
losses and prayed to God to console those that their loved ones.
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