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Boat Mishap: HYPPADEC Presents Live Jackets To Sokoto Community

Boat Mishap: HYPPADEC Presents Live Jackets To Sokoto Community

The Garin Magana community in Shagari Local Government Area (LGA), of Sokoto State, where 29 teenagers recently lost their lives in a boat mishap, on Wednesday received a donation of life jackets.

The Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), presented the life jackets to leaders of the Garin Magana community.

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The victims, who were crossing Shagari River on a boat to a nearby village to fetch firewood, lost their lives on April 13.

HYPPADEC’s Northern Region Commissioner, Mr Aminu Ganda, who presented the jackets, said the assistance was to prevent