By Attah Ede
A 13- year-old, Alhassan Jamil, was on Wednesday killed by floodwaters following a heavy downpour that ravaged parts of federal capital territory, Abuja.
Late Jamil, a Junior Secondary School (JSS) student of Ihyau El -Burhan Academy, Phase 3, Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was swept away by the flood.
Father of the deceased, Jamil Maikasuwa, narrated the incident to journalists at his Old Kutunku residence in Abuja.
He explained that he took his son on his motorcycle to drop him off at the school, but while crossing a double cell culvert, his son fell into the flood water.
He added that when the flood water was gushing his son, out of fear, jumped from the bike and suddenly fell into the flood water.
“And immediately when I discovered he jumped down from the bike, I quickly pushed the bike aside and tried to grab his hand in order to save him but unfortunately, the flood water swept him away.
Maikasuwa, who is the Special Assistant to the Chairman of the council on Domestic Affairs, said his corpse is yet to be recovered.
He disclosed that some fisher men and divers had been mobilize to go in search of the corpse.
According to him, the son’s corpse is yet to be recovered, even though some residents whose houses are close to the river bank said they discovered the corpse with his school bag strapped to his back floating.
“We hope that the corpse isrecovered so we can give him a befitting burial,” he said.
