Philip Azubuike, a university lecturer, has been identified as dead after being submerged in floodwaters at Trademore Estate in Abuja’s Lugbe neighborhood on June 23.
Azubuike worked as a lecturer in the Physics Department at Modibbo Adama University of Technology in Yola, Adamawa State, up to the time of his passing.
It was said that he was driving his Peugeot 406 with the license plate YLA 681 FS when he was swept away.
His corpse was found in the canal by the estate’s entrance.
Alhaji Ashiru, an inspector of police newly posted to the area, who narrated how he lost all his properties, said he pulled out the c0rpse from the canal with the help of other residents around.
Several residents said they saw the victim struggling to come out of the Peugeot car when the flood started.
“We saw him on the top of his vehicle trying to avoid the flood, but later we did not see him again,” a motorcyclist told Premium Times after the corpse was pulled out.
Meanwhile, friends, colleagues and former students have taken to Facebook to mourn the young lecturer.