FOR SAFETY ON WATERWAYS
In the absence of other reliable transportation system in many of our coastal communities, people tend to pile into whatever watercraft happens to be going towards the direction they are headed. But the challenge is that this often necessitates overcrowding when small wooden canoes carry passengers far beyond their capacity. It is therefore little surprise that the body count in the number of deaths occasioned by boat mishaps on the nation’s waterways keeps mounting.
It is tragic that despite various water management authorities that we have in this country, our waterways still remain death traps. There is no doubt that water transportation could be one clear source of decongesting the roads. However, there is an urgent need for the enforcement of operational standards for all ferry and canoe operators across the country’s waterways.
That explains why in some instances boats that were constructed to carry not more than 20 persons could be loaded with 50 or more passengers especially at peak periods when people are in a hurry to get back to their places. Consequently, when the canoe encounters stormy conditions along the water, the sheer weight of the human cargo and other luggage would make it easily susceptible to capsize.
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