Some Nigerians Blame Rivers State Government

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Nigerians on Nairaland the most popular and most visited Nigerian website have blamed the incompetence and gross negligence of the Rivers State Government for the tragic boat mishap at Peterside along the turbulent Port Harcourt-Bonny Sea Route on Friday August 29, 2014. Over 9 passengers, including 4 young graduates of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) assignment in Rivers State drowned in the boat mishap.

The following is from Nairaland posted on http://www.nairaland.com/1878690/boat-mishap-along-port-harcourt-bonny/4

Rivers State Government is to Blame:

First, all accidents are caused by someone. There is no accident that can not be prevented. You need to understand this point before discussing accidents and accident prevention. If you do not get this point then please don’t bother reading further.

secondly, the Rivers state government should have set up minimum safety standards which boat operators are to adhere to to prevent accidents. Those standards are no where to be seen.

Rivers state government is supposed to specify the type and size of flotation devices each person is to wear before boarding water craft. Those specification are no where to be found.

Rivers state government is supposed to licence each boat used for public transport and certify that they are sea worthy before being used, the certification is also supposed to specify the number of persons and maximum weight the boat is allowed to carry. This requirement is non existent.

Boat drivers are supposed to be certified to ensure that people lives are not entrusted into the hands of incompetent people. This is not being done.

lastly those who cause the death of others through these types of preventable accidents ought to be taken to court and jailed for manslaughter by the rivers state government as a deterrent to others, this is not being done.

In summary officials of the Rivers state ministry of transport are grossly incompetent to supervise the activity of water transportation in Rivers state hence we are seeing these types of preventable accidents.

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Rivers State has failed to protect the lives of people using maritime transportation.
Evil and greedy owners of private boats have frustrated the plans of the state government to build a bridge to connect Port Harcourt and Bonny Island.
The solution is for the state government to buy modern ferries and hovercrafts to replace the boats of these evil and wicked people in Rivers State.
They prefer to misappropriate the billions of dollars allocated to them instead of using them to provide services to protect and secure the lives of their fellow citizens.
They don’t care about human lives, because most of them are cultists and political terrorists..I have never seen people so evil and wicked to their fellow humans in the same country.This is not the first time, even the Nigeria LNG lost some members of staff some years ago when they took a local boat after missing the Nigeria LNG ferry.

The Nigeria LNG Limited and Multinational companies in the host communities should provide modern ferries and hovercrafts for safe marine transport in the creeks and rivers of the Niger Delta states in Nigeria.

Source:?Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi

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