Disaster in ijede

Boat mishap in Ijede

A boat with twenty passengers onboard got wrecked yesterday night with only three of the passengers being rescued. As at this morning a lady was brought out dead. The cause of the accident could be linked to the boat engine going dead while in the middle of big river linking egbin with Ajah jetty but a lot of the people waiting for their missing relation to be brought out from the river were complains that most of the boats do not have light for the night journey so were not fit for usage in the night.
Among the dead was a pregnant woman and her husband, so also were many residents of ijede township. One of the people feeling the pain of the mishap is the current chairman of ijede social cloud Tajudeen ojikutu who lost three of his cousins.
Boat mishaps has become a rampant thing in Ikorodu and environs for some time.