Over 200 houses have been submerged by a ravaging surge of the Atlantic Ocean in the Ayetoro community, Ilaje local government area of Ondo State.
The recent surge was said to have begun on Monday, making affected residents flee for safety.
Secretary of the Ayetoro Youths Congress, Emmanuel Aralu, said more than half of the community has been submerged over the years due to the failure of successive administrations to curb the menace.
Aralu stated that hundreds of homes and properties including schools, hospitals and business centres have been lost to the ocean.
He said contractors mobilised to the site for the dredging of the ocean did not do any work and accused the government of abandoning the community to be at the mercy of ecological disasters.
