JOHNSON FLOOD: “WE DID NOT BLOCK DRAINAGE” HOTEL MANAGEMENT

Mr. Jibowu Omoleye. A sailor and one of the associate managers in Juliana Hotel.

The Juliana hotel management has said that they did not block the drainage channel that causes the yearly flood on Johnson Street during heavy rainfall and neither did the Nigerian Port Authority management.

 The tiny hole created by the hotel management inside the hotel to assist water flow when flooded

“We did not block the gutter neither did the NPA. Actually we also share the same flood predicament as everyone on this street. Whenever it rains, the entire hotel premises are also consumed with water. If you take a look at the back, (pointing to the wall at the extreme end of the premises), you will see an opening, this is where the water flows out into the gutter inside the NPA terminal. The people at the beginning of the street pour all sorts of dirt into the gutter and it wanders with the water to block the drainage way. Whenever it is blocked either way by nylons and debris, there must be flood because the water cannot flow through. It is just so unfortunate” a sailor and one of the associate managers of the hotel Mr. Jibowu Omoloye said.

 The gutter way created inside the hotel linking to the hole in the fence

However, Kirikiri news, in an analytical survey gathered that the ever stagnant imagination hovering in the minds of the residents on Johnson street that water flows through the drainage way from Johnson to the Kirikiri canal was and is just a figment of imagination; a complete white lie.

The Gutter on Johnson street assumed to empty inside the Kirikiri canal

It was discovered that the main gutter channel extending from Cardoso Street comes to a halt at the Juliana Hotel fence. In a bid to make sure that accumulated water in the ever sand jam-packed gutter flows away, a nexus gutter was dug by the former hotel management to pass through the hotel premises. This was considered their greatest mistake ever. However, a small circular hole was created in the fence bordering the hotel and the Nigerian Port Authority terminal to connect the gutter inside the terminal in a ridiculous assumption that it flows into the Kirikiri canal.

The extension of tiny hole created in the fence flows into this gutter inside the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) terminal

However, during the survey, it was also discovered that the Kirikiri canal is about 500 meters north to where the gutter is situated inside the terminal and the gutter where the water is so they say to pour into, is filled up with sand. It is also dry at the extreme end to the right and left. On the right, the gutter leads to the end of the fence to the west of the terminal while, on the left, the gutter leads to the NPA terminal gate to the east. The gutter therefore has no linkage to the Kirikiri canal.

The dryness of the NPA terminal  gutter to the east.

Apparently, the landlords on Johnson Street are careless about this as many of them are not resident in the county while some of them hand over property authority to lawyers. However, the rest who live on the street are careless to even chew over the problem swaying in their environment.

                    The extreme end of the NPA ternminal gutter to the west covered with thick bush

The residents who are tenants pray daily to move into their own houses someday as presently, they are helpless. Their landlords don’t care. The government also claims not to know about it even if they may have been notified in previous years and now.

The Kirikiri canal

Nevertheless, this year’s rainy season might have come to an end with feather-light rainfall but next year will definitely be worse if adequate measures aren’t shouldered by relevant authorities.

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