Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello on Thursday described the boat mishap involving 180 passenger at Corner Libata in Ingaski local government area of Kebbi State, as “worrisome and pathetic.”
The governor said this a condolence message to the families of the victims.
The passengers, mostly traders, were travelling to a Market in Kebbi State from loko mina in Niger state.
The Director-General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Ibrahim Inga, had told 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE on telephone Wednesday night that four bodies were recovered while 156 passengers were still missing
“I sympathize with the relations of the victims of the boat that capsized, please take solace in the fact that Allah gives and takes and knows why He permits it to happen,” Bello said.
“May God forgive those who died in the mishap, and heal those injured and traumatized.”
The incident is coming about three weeks after 30 people died in a boat accident on River Zumba in Shiroro local government area of Niger State.
Incessant boat mishaps on Malale River have claimed hundreds of lives in the past.