Like many others, he lost almost all his possessions in the rush to escape.
"We live here with difficulty, under these conditions that you see. We have lost all of our property, our clothes, TV sets and other valuable goods."
Torrential rains hit in late December, forcing around half a million people from their homes.
But more than a month later and some areas are still submerged.
Around 2,400 people have been crammed onto this compound for weeks.
Many have to sleep outside on the ground due to a lack of space in the shared tents.
Sixteen of Congo's 26 provinces are grappling with the fallout from the floods.
At least 221 people were killed, tens of thousands of homes damaged and vulnerable communities exposed to an increased risk of malaria and typhoid, according to Congolese authorities and medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Hydrologist Raphael Tshimanga of the University of Kinshasa said the crisis has underscored an urgent need, especially in the capital.
"It's urgent because the life of Kinshasa is truly threatened. There's an urgency for measures, an operational action plan, comprehensive flood management to be implemented in Kinshasa. There's really an urgency, because with the effects of deforestation still, if deforestation continues, the pollution of our watercourses continues, and like that, we risk seeing effects like this that worsen and will affect more infrastructure, more people at the level of Kinshasa."
Congo had the second-highest rate of tree-cover loss in the world in 2022 after Brazil, according to Global Forest Watch.
Tshimanga said this exacerbates flood risk because a forest's canopy and roots trap rainwater and lessen flows into rivers.
