Mr Ndifreke Nkanta, a trader in Calabar, Cross River State has narrated how four of his six children were killed, while eating when his house collapsed on them in the mudslide that followed the heavy rainfall in the early hours of Sunday in the garden city.
The incident occurred at Okangbang, a community in the outskirt of Calabar metropolis.
Nkata, who also revealed that the remaining two of his children are on admission at a hospital said the ages of the deceased ones ranged between nine months and 15 years.
He added several other houses were also affected by the landslide in his area.
Nkata, who is physically challenged said apart from his children, the flood also swept everything he owned away and he has now been rendered homeless.
38-year old Nkanta therefore seek help of the public to pay the medical bills of his two other children who sustained various degrees of injuries in the incident.
Nkanta said: “The tragic incident happened on Sunday evening after a heavy downpour which brought down many houses in the area.
“I have lost four of my six children who were in the house that collapsed on them as a result of the mudslide.
“They were eating when the house collapsed on them and swept them away. My remaining two kids are in critical condition in the hospital.
“I did not take even a spoon from the house when the flood swept it away; my phone, everything is gone, including my four children.
“As I speak with you, I’m homeless, with no where to. There is no money to even pay the hospital bills for the surviving two. I have nowhere to live anymore.
“I’m just a petty trader, with no other means of survival. I need help from the general public to help my remaining children who are still in the hospital,” he said.
Nkanta called on State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) and other relevant government agencies to come to his aid as the burden was too much for him to bear. (NAN)
