The Lagos State Police Command has said that a yet-to-be-identified 61-year-old man has lost his life after being electrocuted during the flood incident.
Police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the death in a post he shared on his X handle @benHundeyin on Thursday.
He said that the incident happened on Wednesday during a downpour which caused flood in the Orile-Iganmu area of the state.
“During the rain yesterday in Orile-Iganmu, a 61-year-old man, while wading through the floods, held on to a street light pole and sadly got electrocuted,” the spokesperson said.
The image maker urged the public to always stay safe.
In the last few days, flooding has caused havoc for the citizens, destroying, and submerging many residences.
On Thursday, the Lagos state government apologised to residents and commuters in the commercial city over the floods that left millions stranded and many areas submerged.
“I will start by saying to Lagosians, ‘We are sorry for the inconvenience caused due to nature’s cause yesterday morning’,” the Lagos State Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources Tokunbo Wahab said on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.
According to the commissioner, the floods were not due to the government’s lack of planning.
“It’s not for failure to plan that we had what happened yesterday,” Tokunbo said. “No, it was nature taking its full course. And we are sorry for those whose lives were disrupted: they could not go to work, they could not go to their marketplaces, they couldn’t go to school.”
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