UNICAL Director Of Works Swept Away By Flood

A director with the Department of Works in the
University of Calabar, Mr. Friday Sampson, who
was swept away by rampaging flood, Monday
evening, is yet to be found after two days of
frantic search by family and friends.
His first daughter, Patience, said her father was
swept away by flood on his way back UJ Esuene
Sports Stadium from his residence at 3,
Akpandem Lane, off Unical Satellite Town.
"He was coming back from the stadium, where
he went to pick our mother, Uduak Sampson,
who came back from Uyo and along IBB Way,
there was a hold up and my father blared and
blared his horn but the car in front did not move.
"So he stepped out to find out what was going on
and mistakenly stepped into the gutter and was
carried away," Patience said.
According to her, her mother and her 18-year-old
brother, Ime, who accompanied the father to the
stadium to pick the mother, were in the car and
because of the intensity of the downpour could
not do anything to rescue their father.
"The rain was falling very heavily and the flood
was rapid so my mother and younger brother
could not do anything to rescue him, while he
was being carried away."
Patience said the men of Cross River State Fire
Service were contacted to help fish out the man
that night, but that all efforts, until Wednesday
morning, did not yield any result.
"We have searched all the big gutters and forest
and now we are at the CRUTCEH river.
Hopefully, we might locate him here," she added.
When contacted, Information Officer with the
University of Calabar, Mr. Eyo, said the matter
had not been officially reported to the school,
adding "but I have heard that somebody like that
died."