The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), South West coordinator, Ibrahim Farinloye, made this known in a statement on Wednesday.

The affected communities were Oke Isagun, Agbado Oke, Oko LCDA, all in Alimosho LGA.

“The rainfall of Friday, 8th July and Saturday, 9th July, 2022 has revealed that about seven people – three children of the same parent and four adults – died.”, Farinloye said.

Emergency responders, however, eight people during the two-day continuous rainfall.

The three siblings were residing at a church belonging to Mercy of Christ Apostolic Church, situated in an uncompleted building.

Michael, 18; Elizabeth, 17 years and Timi, 14, were swept away while trying to relocate from their room to the main church structure.

Timi, said to be asthmatic, slipped while trying to climb the plank linking their room to the church building.

The coordinator added that the remaining two, while trying to rescue their sibling, were also swept away by the flood.

“The bereaved parents were said to be somewhere, but the NEMA team had a brief meeting with the community leaders on the way forward”, the statement added.

They informed NEMA that in the same community, four siblings were also swept away on the same day but were rescued.

In a statement by the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, the officials of the State are also working on different measures to remove the constriction and blockades that would allow easy passage for the resultant flooding.

He said the state government is also in talks with the officials of the Ogun and Osun River Basin Authority which is releasing water to do so gradually.

He explained that the rise in sea level has contributed to current flooding in many parts of Ikoyi, V.I, Dolphin and Oworoshoki because the lagoon can not discharge and is causing backflow into drainage outlets.

He said the officials of the Drainage Department had expected it to go down by evening but from the look of things now, it may last throughout the weekend.

Similarly, the Commissioner said the Ogun-Oshun River Basin Authority can no longer hold the Oyan dam, hence has been releasing its water causing a rise in Ogun River and this has affected low line areas like Isheri North and Magodo and up to Owode Onirin.

Bello said until the ocean level goes down, the lagoon cannot discharge water into the ocean and causing back flow into all the drainage outlets in the State.