The Kebbi State
Government has arrested a boat operator/driver for overload, following recent
cases of boat and canoes mishaps in Yauri and Lolo in Bagudu Council.
Two traders were confirmed to
have drowned in the River Niger at Tahoe village in Yauri Council.
Briefing newsmen yesterday in
his office, Chairman of the state Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Sani
Dododo, said the arrest became necessary because the operator ignored warnings
against overloading his boat.
He explained
that government had enacted a law against operators/drivers carrying over 50
passenger in a canoe.
Dododo said
the two victims, a Fulani woman and an elderly man from Binua village were on
their way to a market in Yauri when the canoe capsized, two days after 18
worshippers drowned in the same river in Yauri.
By Buhari
Sa'ad
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