Pupils of Anwar-Ul-Islam Primary School flee as cracks appear on the walls of their classrooms
Pupils of Anwar-Ul-Islam Primary School, Apongbon, Lagos Island, were on Monday forced to vacate their classrooms following massive flooding of their premises.
The rain, which started since Sunday night, had made the classrooms inhabitable for learning.
Teachers and pupils abandoned the flooded five-classroom block as it had become weak. A section of the block has been submerged while cracks were noticed on the walls.
The school?s Assistant Headmaster, Saka Lasisi, said that the school was usually flooded because of its location.
?The school is usually flooded anytime it rains as water from parts of the community flows into the school premises,? he said. ?The block is already sinking with cracks on the walls and that is why we were forced to relocate to a new block in the junior secondary school within the premises.?
Lasisi said apart from the flooding which had forced them to abandon their building, the school?s toilet facilities had also become a shelter for reptiles and dangerous animals.
He called for the assistance of the authorities to enable the school to resume normal academic work.
Reacting, Oluwole Ogunleke, the Chairman of Olowogbowo Community Development Association, said that the problem of flooding in the Apogbon area was being addressed.
He said the drains had been cleared while illegal structures on the drains were demolished to ensure free flow of rain water.
