ANE IGALA RESTORATION (AIR) receives the news of the Ibaji boat mishap which occurred on the 30th October, 2025 which resulted in the death of about 26 Igala patriots, farmers, fisher men and business men and women who were enroute to Ilushi for economic activities with grave sadness and concerns.
AIR commiserates with the Kogi state government, the Atta Igala, HRM, Dr Alaji Mathew Opaluwa Oguche Akpa II, Onu_Uje of Ibaji, HRH Chief John Egwemi, Ibaji Local Government Area Council, the Igala Nation, the Ibaji people and the immediate families of the victims of the mishap over this tragedy of monumental proportion.
AIR regrets the unfortunate occurrence which has brought the lives of those very illustrious and patriotic Igala statesmen and women to an abrupt end and untold hardships to their respective families whose breadwinners and sources of livelihood have been brought to ruin.
AIR prays to the Almighty God for the repose of the souls of the departed as well as fortitude for the family to bear the irreparable loss.
AIR wishes to use this medium to call on the Kogi state government, the Ibaji Local Government Area Council, international organizations as well meaning Nigerians to come to the aid of the Ibaji people as the locals have suffered unbearable hardship, neglect and degradation over decades, these ugly trends have been the lot of the Ibaji people over the years and the discovery of crude oil and its subsequent mining with the resultant accrual of revenues to the Kogi state government and Ibaji Local Government Area Council has not in any way changed the unfortunate narrative.
AIR therefore call of Kogi state government to raise to the occasion in ensuring that basic means of transportation such as access road, well organized and structured water transport systems as well as other infrastructure are brought to the people of Ibaji to avert the reoccurrence of such mishap in the future.
Thank you.
Apostle Dr, Odekina Ocholi E.
National President
Salifu Oguche Usman,Esq, (LL.M)
National Secretary
