IAUE Post Graduate Student feared dead Over Flood Stampede Along East-West Road To Port Harcourt
– Trailer Drivers Make Brusk Business Ferrying Commuters at Exorbitant Costs Across Flood Ravaged East-West Road
A middle-aged woman, whose name could not be ascertained, is feared dead as the ravaging flood across the East-West Road carried her away, drowning, as a result of the impact of the heavy currents while trekking across the Okobe-Ahoada axis of East West Road from Yenagoa to Port Harcourt.
Eye witnesses report that the sad incident happened early Friday morning during the heavy down pour as commuters drop from their commercial buses to cross by leg, over the Ahoada axis of the East West Road when the ravaging floods swept her off her feet as other pedestrians in her company scampered for safety while a few tried pulling her out of the heavy current flowing southwards into the Mangrove creeks, to no avail.
It was said that the middle aged lady hails from Bayelsa and was a Post Graduate Student of the Faculty of Humanities, of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, former COE, en route Port Harcourt to write her exams schedule to begin same day.
Recall that IAUE is not on strike like other tertiary institutions in Rivers State and post graduate student have exams and project Thesis defence, hence the need for her to be in school even at the risk of the floods.
As of the time of this report, it was gathered that many pedestrians were still
stranded at the food ravaged Okobe axis of East West Road while truck and trailer drivers of heavy duty articulated vehicles were making brisk business faring passengers across the troubled spots for as high as three thousand naira from Mbiama to Choba and a thousand naira to cross the troubled one kilometer stretch of the East-West Road which is threatening to cave way as the ravaging flood increases its water table and heavy current flow.
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