•Boat mishap
Pastor Promise Festus, a father residing in Ngo Town within the Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, has expressed distress, revealing that his five children were among the casualties of the boat accident along the Andoni-Bonny waterways.
He described his world as shattered and appealed to the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and the chairman of his local government area for assistance, reports The Nation.
Explaining the incident in a viral video, Festus said: “I went to celebrate Christmas with my people. So on the way coming back, January 8, I loaded people, who had no money to pay for transport with my family, accidentally, our boat capsized in front of the LNG, where there was no rescue, so about eleven people died and out of that eleven people, five are my sons and daughters, five are my children.
“We lost everything and there is no way for me even to survive. Everything in my life; phone, money that I will carry to survive. Everything; my boat and other things. No business, no way, the way to start I don’t know.
“In my presence my children died. I want the state government and Andoni Local Government to assist me. To forgive any sin that I committed and assist me.”
