BODIES of six school children who drowned in Wednesday’s boat
mishap in Ojo area of Lagos were recovered yesterday.
The six were among the 14 school children and an adult on board a
canoe in Irewe, Ebute-Ojo, which capsized when a speedboat ran into
it. The other eight and the adult were rescued alive.
Government yesterday blamed the careless operator of a speedboat,
while also regretting that none of the 15 passengers wore life-vests
during the ill-fated home-to-school ride.
Managing Director of Lagos State Waterways Agency (LASWA), Yinka
Marinho, told newsmen that tragedy struck when a motorised
speedboat, owned by Ola-Mother, developed a fault mid-water and
strayed onto the oncoming canoe when the operator was attempting to
fix the problem in motion.
