Kelvin Bowoto
Officials from the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) and the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) rescued 15 passengers on Wednesday from a boat tragedy involving a 17-passenger boat on the Lagos waterways.
One passenger was confirmed dead and another was declared missing after the boat T-BEN left Addax Jetty for Ibeshe around 18:25 hours on February 21, 2024, but collided with submerged shoreline concrete in the middle of the channel near the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge.
Wuraola Alake, chief of LASWA’s Public Affairs Unit, verified that the boat collided with submerged shoreline concrete at a construction site near the power line corridor at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge.
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“At about 6:50 today, Wednesday, February 21, 2024, an Ibeshe-bound passenger boat dubbed T-Ben, which had departed from Addax Jetty, collided with submerged shoreline concrete at a building site surrounding the power line corridor at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge.
“Fifteen of the 17 passengers reported to be on board this boat have been rescued, with one casualty confirmed, and the rescue attempt is still ongoing at the time of this release.
“Officers from the Lagos State Waterways Authority’s Search and Rescue Unit, the Lagos State Ferry Services, commercial boat operators, and other volunteers are still on the scene conducting additional rescue operations.
“The officers from the Marine Unit of the Nigerian Police Force and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) are currently at the LASWA office to hand over the recovered female corpse to the officers of the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU),” Alake said in a press release.
Techrectory with Agency Report.
