{"id":17365,"date":"2017-09-19T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=17365"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:39:06","slug":"niger-boat-mishap-12-bodies-recovered-38-others-rescued-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/niger-boat-mishap-12-bodies-recovered-38-others-rescued-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger Boat mishap: 12 bodies recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Olabide Adaramola<\/p>\n

Twelve bodies, among them 10 females and an eight year old boy from the scene of Saturday’s commercial boat accident in river Shiroro, in Munya local government area of Niger state,\u00a0have been recovered.<\/p>\n

\nThe bodies of the victims \u00a0were recovered with the help of \u00a0combined efforts of the marine police stationed at Shiroro dam and some local divers in the areas.<\/div>\n
\nAll the recovered bodies have been buried at the river bank in Kuduru amidst \u00a0waillings, cries \u00a0 and opened display of sense of loss by the bereaved relatives and friends of the deceased \u00a0victims.<\/p>\n

National Wire also learnt that while the nine Christians among the dead were\u00a0 buried separately beside one another, their counterparts moslem adherents \u00a0who suffered similar fate \u00a0were also buried there \u00a0separately.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nMeanwhie, the state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello who was represented at the burial by his chief of staff, Hon. Mikhail Bmitoshai, described the incidence \u00a0 as not only regrettable but unfortunate and urged the people to it take \u00a0it as an act of God.<\/div>\n
\nThe chief of staff, accompanied by some top government functionaries from the area visited the scene of the last \u00a0Saturday,s \u00a0mishap after traveling on boat for about \u00a0two and half hours for on the spot assessment of incident and to condole with the families of the deceased victims of the ill- fated passenger boat.<\/div>\n
\nThe government delegations arrivednthe communities \u00a0when villagers were burring the deceased.<\/p>
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Bmitoshi said that the state government will set up what he called water ways transport agency with a view to regulate the activities of boats operators in the state.<\/p>\n

He empasized \u00a0that the government has observed with dismay that all the commercial \u00a0boats \u00a0operators in parts of \u00a0the state have no protective jackets for their passengers, stressing that “the government will make sure that henceforth, no boat operators in the state picked passengers \u00a0at river banks \u00a0without giving them \u00a0protective jackets individually when the agency becomes operational”<\/p><\/div>\n

\n“The state has witnessed too many boat mishaps. The government will soon come up with an agency that will regulate and monitor their activities so as to avoid some of these avoidable incidents on our water ways”, he lamented .<\/div>\n
\nHe disclosed further \u00a0that the state government will soon buy protective jackets and distribute it to these boats operators at \u00a0subsidized rates, pointing out that “when that is done, no operator will be allowed to carry passengers without protective jackets”.<\/div>\n
\nIt could be recalled that a boat carrying about 60 people, five cows, six sheep, eight bags of maize, four bags of rice and some other food items capsized on river after it broke into two, 30 minutes into the two hours journey to Zumba market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Olabide Adaramola Twelve bodies, among them 10 females and an eight year old boy from the scene of Saturday’s commercial boat accident in river Shiroro, in Munya local government area of Niger state,\u00a0have been recovered. 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