No fewer than 100 residential buildings were badly damaged by the weekend rainstorm in three communities in Ekiti state.
Mostly hit by the tornado were private residential buildings, Police Staff Quarters, religious centres, and lock-up shops, spread across the three towns.
One of the victims, a 95-year old woman, Mrs Julianah Ademilua, said she had been homeless since Saturday when the rainstorm blew off her building.
She pleaded with the government to consider her age and come to her aid.
However, the Ekiti state governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has assured victims of rainstorm in some communities that the government won’t abandon them to suffer at this trying time.
Oyebanji said the government would provide relief materials to the victims to rebuild their damaged structures and regretted how citizens were subjected to the harrowing experience of homelessness due to the incident in many parts of the state.
The governor gave the assurance Monday while inspecting buildings affected by rainstorm in Iyin, Ifaki and Usi Ekiti, with scores of victims rendered homeless due to the wreckage suffered on buildings numbering over 100 in the three towns.
Oyebanji, represented by the deputy governor, Chief Monisade Afuye, restated the need for landlords to conduct regular maintenance on their structures to abate the recurrent cases of building collapse during stormy downpour.