Thursday, September 10, 2026 - A 13- year-old Junior Secondary School (JSS) student of
Ihyau El -Burhan Academy, Phase 3, Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT), Alhassan Jamil, has d!ed after he was swept away by
flood on Wednesday, September 9.
Father of the deceased, Jamil Maikasuwa, while narrating the
incident to DailyTrust, said he picked his son up on his motorcycle to drop him
off at the school, but while crossing a double-cell culvert, his son who was
seated at the back, fell into flood water.
“Upon
discovering that the flood water was coming on high speed, I applied brake but
my 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, ” he said.
Maikasuwa, who is the Special Assistant to the Chairman of
the council on Domestic Affairs, said the victim’s corpse is yet to be
recovered.
He disclosed that some fisher men and divers had been
mobilize to go in search of the corpse.
“Actually,
my 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 will be recovered so we
can give him a befitting burial,” he said
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