The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has said that the downpour on Saturday evening in the nation’s capital has claimed the life of a 31 year old motorcyclist, Yakubu Lucky.
Its Head of Public Affairs, Nkechi Isa in a statement issued Sunday said Lucky drowned after he drove into the pool of water at Dogongada in Lokogoma District of the territory.
She said: “The deceased who defied warnings from the local divers stationed at Dogongada by the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also navigated through the barricade placed by the Agency.
“The Search and Rescue team of FEMA led by the Director Forecasting Response and Mitigation, Mrs. Florence Wenegieme recovered the body of the deceased today and deposited it at the Asokoro district Hospital where a doctor confirmed him dead on arrival.”
Isa added that the family of the deceased who hailed from Zango Kataf, Kaduna State, has since taken his body away for burial.
Reacting to the incident, the Ag. Director General of FEMA, Mr. Mohammed Sabo, appealed to FCT residents to always heed to the warnings issued by the Agency.
He added that the agency always places a barricade at Dogogada during heavy downpour, while urging the residents not to drive into a pool of water but should wait for it to recede or seek an alternative route.