Death toll from Sokoto boat mishap hits 65
He urged the Federal Government, relevant ministries and agencies responsible for water resources, dams and disaster management to declare the desilting of Goronyo Dam and its tributaries an emergency intervention and deploy the required technical expertise and resources without further delay.
He further appealed to the Federal Government to combine the desilting programme with stronger waterway safety enforcement, improved emergency response mechanisms, provision of adequate life jackets, proper regulation of boat operations and sustained monitoring of vulnerable crossing points.
Gorau called on the Federal Government to commence the comprehensive desilting of Goronyo Dam and its tributaries, warning that decades of accumulated silt and sediments had significantly reduced the facility’s water-holding capacity and could worsen flooding and other water-related disasters in surrounding communities.
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