How Calabar flood targets ‘Target Street’ to flush out residents

A 25 -year-old nursing mother , Mrs. Ndidi Okereke , almost threw her three -month-old baby into the flood on August 15, after a ravaging downpour brought down one side of her rented two bedroomed apartment along Target Street in the Calabar-South axis of the Cross River State capital .
The speed at which the water found its way into her home within split seconds , left the mother of three traumatised.
It took the swift intervention of some neighbours who were also in the same dilemma to first sort out the pathetic case of Mrs. Okereke before facing theirs.
Although flood has become a recurring decimal in most parts of the country, the case of Target Street and its environs in Calabar is peculiar because residents go through horrendous experiences any day there is downpour.
While many residents of Target Street , Goldie , Murray, Ebito and the lower part of Nelson Mandela streets are said to have died out of frustration caused by the disaster , others have lost property worth millions of naira to the flood in the area each time it rained .
In fact , authorities of the Cross River State Emergency Management Agency say no fewer than 15 persons have died within the last one month in the flood-prone areas of the state.