{"id":3570,"date":"2023-10-22T08:33:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T08:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2023-10-22T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T08:33:23","slug":"heavy-downpour-kills-31-year-old-okada-rider-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/22\/heavy-downpour-kills-31-year-old-okada-rider-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Downpour Kills 31-year Old Okada Rider In Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A heavy downpour on Friday evening claimed the life of a 31-year old motorcyclist identified as Yakubu Lucky, at Dogon Gada in Lokogoma District of the FCT, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which confirmed the incident in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said the deceased defied warnings, drove into a pool of water and drowned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The statement, signed by FEMA\u2019s Head of Public Affairs, Mrs Nkechi Isa, said that the deceased defied warnings from the local divers stationed in the area by FEMA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It added that the deceased also navigated through the barricade placed by the agency to stop residents from going through the flooding water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that the Search and Rescue Team of FEMA, led by Mrs Florence Wenegieme, the Director, Forecasting Response and Mitigation, recovered the body of the deceased on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It further said that the body was deposited at the Asokoro District Hospital where a doctor confirmed him dead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family of the deceased who hailed from Zango Kataf, Kaduna State, has since taken his body away for burial,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, the acting Director-General of FEMA, Mr Mohammed Sabo, appealed to residents to always heed to the warnings issued by the agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sani said that the FEMA always places a barricade at Dogon Gada during heavy downpours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He urged residents not to drive into a pool of water but should wait for it to recede or seek an alternative route.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sabo commiserated with the family of the deceased and called on residents to always use the 112 emergency toll-free number in the event of a disaster or emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Idowu &nbsp; A heavy downpour on Friday evening claimed the life of a 31-year old motorcyclist identified as Yakubu Lucky, at Dogon Gada in Lokogoma District of the FCT, Abuja. &nbsp; The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which confirmed the incident in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said the deceased defied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}