Benue: SEMA demands compulsory life jackets after boat mishap 

The Benue State Emergency Management Agency, Benue-SEMA, has called for the compulsory wearing of beingness jackets by passengers and operators connected the state’s waterways pursuing a vessel mishap that claimed 3 lives and near 8 radical missing.

The bureau made the request aft conducting an appraisal of Saturday’s vessel mishap astatine the River Katsina-Ala crossing constituent successful Buruku Local Government Area of the state.

According to the assessment, the ill-fated vessel was carrying 107 passengers and 38 Bajaj motorcycles erstwhile it overturned portion conveying radical backmost from a funeral.

Benue-SEMA said 11 passengers were initially declared missing aft the accident. However, 3 of them person since been confirmed dead, portion hunt efforts are ongoing for the remaining eight.

The bureau besides disclosed that 10 of the 38 motorcycles progressive successful the incidental had been recovered, leaving 28 motorcycles inactive to beryllium retrieved.

The Executive Secretary of Benue-SEMA, James Iorpuu, represented by the agency’s Head of Administration, Samuel Atii, led officials to the affected assemblage arsenic portion of the effect and appraisal exercise.

During the visit, the squad engaged members of t...