Residents helplessly stranded at Lekki, Oniru area of Lagos
The rich, the cliche goes, also cry! The incessant rain that has held Lagos captive for almost a week now has proved that, indeed, the rich truly also face all the vagaries that bedevil even the wretched of the earth. It is no respecter of the high and mighty!
Recall, earlier in the week, neighbours of Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, woke up to find their highbrow Victoria Garden City (VGC) estate in Lagos, has been taken over by a huge body of water. They virtually had to swim their way in and out of their homes.
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Today, it appears residents of VGC are not the only ones who will be needing swimming lessons, Oniru Estate and the Lekki axis too have their own tears to shed. And the tears runs aplenty. All over Lekki phase one and two, and the corresponding estates in Oniru, is a blanket cover of water: they are all drenched in flood. Water has taken over and the proverbial tears is metaphorically flooding the eyelids of residents.
For most, various homes in Lekki, especially the lower floors are flooded. Their sitting rooms have become mini oceans of water; their properties either floating or submerged in rain water.
Their compounds and streets are flooded no go areas. In almost everywhere in Lekki, the middle and upper-class Nigerians are suddenly prisoners. Prisoners to flood. Helpless. They are inconsolable. They are no different from the worst part of Lagos any longer. Flood has become a leveller.