Gombe Launches First Marine Transport To Curb Boat Accidents

Gombe State authorities has inaugurated its archetypal marine transport service, equipping passengers with beingness jackets to heighten information and amended h2o transportation.

Launching the task astatine Kupto colony successful Funakaye section authorities area, on the Upper River Gongola, the commissioner for Works, Housing and Transportation, Usman Maijama’a Kallamu, who represented Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, with different officials, unveiled a modern vessel provided successful concern with the National Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPPADEC) to trim vessel mishaps.

The commissioner urged passengers and operators to prioritise safety, pass against nighttime journeys, and punctual travellers ne'er to committee without beingness jackets.

Kallamu reaffirmed the administration’s committedness to processing each modes of transportation, peculiarly for agrarian and riverine communities. He said Governor Yahaya has assured that much boats volition beryllium provided to Kupto and different riverbank communities to further heighten harmless h2o question crossed the state.

Also speaking, Nana Asma’u Jika, Manager of the Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) Gombe-Yola Area Office, represented by Dahiru Inuwa, conducted a unrecorded objection connected the due usage of beingness jackets. She explained that the cogwheel could support passengers afloat for up to six hours portion awaiting rescue successful lawsuit of accidents.

Delivering a goodwill message, Dr. Ibrahim Baba Ibrahim, State Coordinator of N-HYPPADEC, represented by Abdullahi Muhammad, announced that the committee had supplied implicit 700 beingness jackets to Gombe arsenic portion of its information drive.

The Deputy Chairman of Funakaye LGA, Shuaibu Abdulrahman, who represented the assembly chairman, expressed gratitude to the authorities authorities and partners for bringing safer and much accessible transport to riverine residents.

He pledged the council’s committedness to maintaining the boats and ensuring compliance with information guidelines.

The officials stressed that the initiative, a collaboration betwixt the Gombe State authorities and N-HYPPADEC, is expected to easiness proscription challenges successful riverbank communities portion reducing casualties from vessel accidents.