They said they were appealing to Fashola because of the police's failure to do anything about their plight.
Whenever it rains, the police barracks is flooded, endangering the lives of occupants.
Properties worth million of naira have been lost to the flood. The women are worried that any of their kids could drown if nothing is done about the flood. They said the flood became serious after drainage was constructed from Abule-Odu to check the problem.
When the engineers reached Car Wash Bus Stop where the Barrack is, they stopped work, making that axis the high point for water whenever it rains, it was learnt.
A woman said: "Even after the drainage fiasco, we were still not too bothered because if we wait for some hours after the rainfall or days, the flood will drain away. But now, it's no longer so. The flood is just there! Rather than flow away, it slowly dries up and it could take months for such to happen.
Our children fall sick every time due to mosquito bites and we can't even concentrate at the office. If we're on the beat and it starts raining, our attention would be diverted. We would be thinking and worrying of the flood entering our homes.
We would be thinking of any of our kids falling into the water.
Another explained that there were immediate and remote cause of the flood.
She said: "The remote cause is the uncompleted drainage in 2008. Perhaps if the workers had completed the drainage, this wouldn't be happening. But our major problem now is the newly commissioned Police Housing Estate at this Egbeda/Idimu.
It was commissioned by President Goodluck Jonathan not too long ago. Since the building of those apartments, we've known no peace! Every time it rains, we live in fear. The flood now is so bad, that it used to enter our homes.
While people are sleeping, we're busy bailing out water from our homes and many of our husband's still have to go to work the next day, despite the fact that they didn't sleep the night before. Let the government come to our rescue."
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