12 die while using local boat to cross to 6th Avenue Estate
in Festac…
Last week Tuesday March
11th, Twelve people unfortunately lost their lives while trying to cross a
canal with a local boat to 6th Avenue Estate in Festac, which they say is the shortest
(not the only) route to the estate. There was a 'Kpako' bridge there but when
it got bad about 2 years ago, the local government didn't bother building
another one, so commuters were forced to start using boats to cross the canal
which usually takes less than four minutes and they pay N10 to cross.
Unfortunately that day
the boat, with about 13 people on-board, capsized around 7pm and it took about
two hours for rescuers to recover the bodies from the canal. 1 survived. The
local government chairman came with an ambulance to convey the deceased to the
morgue.
Today, some residents
of the area took to the streets to protest the deaths as angry relatives and
neighbours say the deceased have been abandoned in the morgue without care and
that the govt has refused to allow relatives claim their loved ones. They are also
asking for a new bridge to be built to avoid further deaths.
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