15-minute rainstorm wrecks havoc in Ogun community  

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Residents of Ijere Worugundu community in Pakuro area of Obafemi-Owode Local Council of Ogun State have waited earnestly for the first rain of the year to cool off the excruciating heat, when it finally came last Friday, it turned out to be a disaster for the sleepy community.
     
The rain, which started about 4:00p.m. with large ice blocks (Megacrymeteor), lasted barely 15 minutes, but left behind trails of sorrow and anguish.
  
Till date, many victims are yet to effect repairs on their properties because of lack of funds, while debris of the fallout of the disaster litters around the community.

“Though on that fateful day,  I was around there, I saw some fracas between the Omooniles over the shifting of the boundary closer to the  Iroko tree.
 
“They were saying that the land was supposed to be a sacred place, and the police post or the community market should not be moved  close to the Iroko tree. 

“ But there was another argument that the Iroko is part and parcel of the community. So, if they wanted to put the police post and market close to it, they did not see anything wrong in it.
 
“However, those who are custodians of the Iroko tree were speaking against siting the facilities close to the Iroko tree.
  
“By and large, the storm also destroyed the fence used to demarcate the new site of the police post.
 
“The Iroko is housing some zinc on top and people are saying  that it is a sign that  the Iroko is not happy but to me, it is just a coincidence without any undertone.
  
“In the past , we have been witnessing but not as severe as the present case, to the extent of destroying houses, this is the first of its kind in the past 15 years that I have lived in the community.”