Kwara Boat Mishap: Life Jackets Should Be Compulsory- HYPPADEC Boss
The Managing Director of the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), Alhaji Abubakar Yelwa, has called for a law to make life jackets compulsory for boat users across the country. Yelwa made the appeal while reacting to the boat mishap in Patigi LGA, Kwara state, which claimed about 100 lives on Monday. Alhaji Yelwa on Wednesday in Ilorin, during the flag-off of the distribution of the 2023 HYPPADEC-subsidised fertilisers for 5,795 farmers in kwara said “The fatality recorded in the unfortunate boat mishap in Patigi on Monday was due to the failure of the boat passengers to use life jackets.