… Says incident a routine safety simulation exercise by Emergency Rescue Team
The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) has dismissed a video making the rounds on social media falsely claiming that a boat mishap occurred at the Five Cowries Terminal on Tuesday morning.
According to a statement from the Public Relations Office, LASWA and signed by Wuraola Alake, the incident in the purported boat mishap video was actually a routine safety simulation exercise being carried out by the LASWA Emergency Rescue Team as part of their training exercise.
The statement explained that the training demonstration was part of LASWA safety preparedness against any possible incident on the State Inland Waterways.
“LASWA wishes to state categorically that no such incident of boat mishap whatsoever occured anywhere on the state Inland Waterways in recent time.
“We, therefore, urge the general public to disregard the video as it was done unprofessionally by an unknown source without proper investigation and verification”, the statement said.
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