Forty-two-year-old artisan, Ademola Oloyede, tells DANIEL AYANTOYE about the heartbreaking loss of his six-year-old daughter, Asabi, whose dream of becoming a singer was tragically cut short when she drowned after floodwaters from a torrential downpour engulfed their home in the Okeleye, Charity area of Lagos State
Your six-year-old daughter drowned in a recent flood. How did the tragedy happen?
I was not at home when the incident took place. The rain started on Sunday, June 28, around 3:30 pm and lasted for two hours. Of course, it was not the first time we had witnessed such a downpour, so everybody thought it was the usual rainfall.
Then it began to intensify, and the flood came. It was the flood that brought down the fence of the Christ Apostolic Church, Okeleye, Oshodi, Lagos. The water entered our compound with a lot of dirt. My daughter was sleeping inside the house with my wife, son and a baby.
Where were you when the rain started?
