Rain wreaks havocs in Banue, renders residents homeless

 

 

 

Some residents of Achusa, Barracks Road, Wadata, Kutcha Utebe, parts of Naka Road, have sacked by flood following a heavy downpour in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

 

IDOMA VOICE observed that the worst hit was the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), on Barracks Road, where both the English and Hausa auditoria and the residences of the two pastors were flooded, almost to their window level. Also devastated was the Nursery and Primary School of the Church located within the same premises.

 

Narrating the experience, the pastor in charge of Hausa Church, Reverend Williams Mkar, said he was in the living room with his wife when the rain started: “Suddenly, I just saw water gushing into the house from the main door, which was supposed to have been closed and within minutes, the whole of my three-bedroom apartment was flooded, with all our chairs completely submerged in the flood.

 

“In no time, it had flooded to all the rooms, sending all our children who were in their rooms scampering to the palour where we were. One of our children had to lift the youngest child on her shoulders because by this time, the water level had reached our waste.

 

“When my wife made efforts to open the kitchen door to see if we could escape through there, we were surprised at the level of water that forcefully gushed into the house from there. When the water level kept rising, we knew it was time for us to leave the house.

 

“I told my family to brace up as I moved to open the door.  We carefully waded through the flood into the English Church auditorium that was less flooded where we stayed until help came our way.”

 

 

Treasure Orokpo

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