Twenty additional bodies were recovered on Thursday from the site of a tragic boat accident that occurred on Tuesday in Niger State. The wooden boat, carrying approximately 300 passengers from Kwara State to an event in Niger State, capsized at Gbajibo in Mokwa Local Government Area.
Local divers, along with officials from the Niger State Emergency Management Agency and the National Emergency Management Agency , have been conducting the recovery operation. The Director-General of NSEMA, Abdullahi Baba-Arah, confirmed that the total number of recovered bodies has now reached 36, with 16 bodies — 14 males and 2 females — having been retrieved and buried on Wednesday. An additional 20 bodies were recovered on Thursday.
'We had to bury them on the Niger State side to avoid chaos back home in Kwara. “Our women were devastated, running around in grief. The entire community has been paralyzed by this tragedy — no shops are open, and no one is cooking.' Gbajibo also revealed that the community had requested motorcycles to prevent future tragedies. 'Many victims would not have taken the boat if we had motorcycles. We need better transportation to avoid overloading boats,' he stated.
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