As a result of boat mishaps in Nigerian waterways investigation revealed .
Expert on water transport attributed the incident to lack of enforceable regulation and policy direction.
The expert , said that, thousand of Nigerians who relied on water transportation use crude methods to improvise boats and badges and rarely took safety measures while navigating the waters with huge loads and people.
According to national inland waterways Authority (NIWA) , Nigeria’s resource base of waterways spans 10,000 kilometers, with about 3,800kilometers of it ” navigeble seasonally”
However, our investigation found out that, rather than help to improve the movement of humans and goods , these larger water bodies which connecting 28 of the 36 states of the federation have became waterways of tragedies due to near absence of infrastructure and supervision.
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