The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), on Tuesday, arrested and seized six-passenger boats flouting safety rules on the Lagos waterways. In a statement issued by the agency, the six boats were seized by the Enforcement and monitoring team of the agency. According to the statement, “The Enforcement and monitoring team of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) on their patrol earlier on Tuesday seized a total of six engines belonging to passenger boats that were caught flouting safety regulations on the waterways. “Among the safety rules not observed by the six boats includes not wearing life jackets, overloading and others. He decreed that North-South rotation of the presidency of Nigeria should be dead; from 2023, the most competent among contenders would be put in the Presidential Villa…LASWA arrests six-passenger boats

Source: Nigerian Tribune August 04, 2020 22:30 UTC