Kindiki mourns Kisumu-Kakamega highway crash victims
By Valerian Khakayi, August 8, 2025Deputy President Kithure Kindiki expressed profound sorrow over the tragic crash along the Kisumu–Kakamega highway.
The fatal accident occurred on Friday evening, August 8, 2025, when a bus ferrying mourners overturned at the Coptic roundabout, claiming the lives of 21 passengers.
In a heartfelt message shared on his official social media channels shortly after the tragic incident, Kindiki said that the loss, which comes a day after two other crashes, one involving a train and a bus, and the other the Amref chopper crash that also claimed lives, is painful and inexplicable.
Additionally, the deputy president also extended his sympathies and prayers to the family of the victims.
“It is another dark night of grief. The tragic loss of another 21 souls in the Kisumu bus crash just a day after two other fatal accidents claimed lives is painful and inexplicable,” Kindiki mourned.
“Deep sympathies and prayers for grace to the families that have lost their dear ones.”
Kisumu fatal accident
The accident occurred after a school bus belonging to Naki AIC High School overturned near the Coptic roundabout area, marking one of the deadliest accidents in recent times along this route.
According to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, 21 people have lost their lives, and 21 others are currently receiving medical treatment.
The hospital received the victims after a bus carrying 61 family members.
In a post shared on its official Facebook page on Friday, August 8, 2025, just hours after the accident, the hospital noted that 19 bodies were transported directly from the accident scene to the facility.
“Staff at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) moved swiftly this evening to receive and save the lives of survivors from a tragic road accident that occurred at the Coptic roundabout area along the Kisumu-Kakamega road. The accident involved a school bus carrying family members who were on their way to Nyakach after attending a burial of their relative in Nyahera, Kisumu West sub-county,” the hospital wrote on Facebook.
“Twenty-one of the occupants are currently stable and receiving treatment at the hospital’s Emergency and Accident Unit. Unfortunately, the hospital also received 19 bodies from the accident scene, While another two unidentified adult males and a male child succumbed to their injuries upon arrival at the hospital. Making to the total number of those dead 21.”