The corpse of a 23-year-old radio mechanic apprentice, Abayomi Amusan, has been discovered in a drainage in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Olabisi
Clet-Ilobanafor, told the Nigerian Tribune in Ibadan on Thursday that
the deceased was found dead in a drainage by workers of a construction
firm.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that another victim of
Saturday’s flood in Ibadan was found at the Dandaru Dam on
Secretariat/Paliament Road, Ibadan, on Thursday but the PPRO said it was
not at the dam but at Alakia Adenubi in Egbeda Local Government Area of
the state. She said that the deceased, who was found in the drainage,
was a resident of Oba Odan, in Olosan area in the state capital.
According
to her, the body of the deceased was recovered by the workers of
construction firm working on Papa-Olosan road and had been taken to
Adeoyo General Hospital mortuary. It will be recalled that five persons
were swept away during a heavy downpour in Ibadan. Three bodies of the
victims were seen floating on Tuesday on Dandaru Dam on the
Secretariat/Paliament Road, Ibadan.
The victims, Ojo Adelusi,
Sunday Ijoh, Sunkami Iyiola,Wole Iyiola and Ope Ogungbemi had left for a
social function in the metropolis around 10.30 p.m. on Saturday when
their car fell into a canal at Favours area of Bodija, in Ibadan.
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