The son of the late Highlife music legend, Osita Osadebe, is dead after he was swept away by floods in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra.

The 18-year-old boy, Okechukwu Osadebe, died on Thursday, Sept. 27 in the Osadebe’s Atani country home.

According to reports, Okechulwu was returning home with two other persons when flash flood overwhelmed them.

The mother of the deceased, Mrs Amaechi Osadebe, said that it was due to high current and turbulence of the water wave that made it difficult for the other two young boys to pull him out of the water.

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Mr Arinzechukwu Awogu, the Transition Chairman of Ogbaru, who visited the family, described the death as a tragedy to the whole Ogbaru community.

Awogu said he came to commiserate with the family as it was very painful to lose a child at such a tender age, regretting that the floods had brought unimaginable loss to the entire Local Government.

He, however, called on the people of the area to take extra precautions to avoid further loss of life.

“As we wait for the water to recede, my advice is that everybody, especially the underage, should be very careful when they go close to the areas already submerged,” he said.

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