Kogi boat mishap: NIWA sends rescue team, sets up investigation panel for prosecution

By Steve Agbota

The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has sent an emergency rescue team to search for missing passengers as a merchant boat capsized in the waters of Ebe community in Kupa South Local Government Area of Kogi State in the early hour of Friday.

Preliminary findings by NIWA indicate that the wooden boat was travelling to the Katcha market in Niger State when it suddenly…