Local divers have recovered the body of an unidentified adult male, who drowned while riding on a jet ski at the Lekki-Ikoyi inland waterways in Lagos State.
According to PUNCH, the General Manager of the Lagos State Waterways Authority, Oluwadamilola Emmanuel, who disclosed this said the body was discovered on Friday morning.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that the adult male drowned while riding on a jet ski on Lekki-Ikoyi inland waterways in Lagos.
The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, had in a statement on Wednesday, disclosed that the victim drowned as a result of speeding, adding that the body had sunk too deep to be rescued.
Emmanuel, however, said the local divers contacted emergency responders immediately after the body was found.
He said, “Emergency responders found the body on Friday morning with the help of locals in the area. When the locals saw the body, they informed us and we went there to identify and recover it. It has been handed over to the marine police.”
The LASWA boss said the identity of the deceased was not ascertained before it was taken to the marine police.
He said, “We did not have the details of the victim before we gave the body to the marine police. They (the police) will carry out an investigation on his identity.”
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