Tag: Likoni Channel

Governor Nassir proposes stopping vehicles from using ferry after bus accident

Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Nassir has announced plans to bar vehicles from using ferries at the Likoni crossing channel in Mombasa following a bus accident on Sunday, October 6, 2024. Governor Nassir in a statement, announced that his administration was contemplating presenting a proposal to the national government which could stop motor vehicles from using the […]

Man drowns after jumping off MV Harambee at Likoni channel

Kenya Ferry Services Managing Director, Bakari Gowa, said that the incident took place at 1.00 am on Sunday.

300,000 Likoni Ferry users to be stranded daily if Senate team proposal effected

KFS MD Bakari Gowa subjected to hours of grilling by Senate transport team over state of ferries in use at the Likoni Channel.

Senate report says Mariam Kighenda, daughter’s deaths could’ve been avoided

Senate report accuses KFS of operating three decommissioned ferries, including MV Harambee, MV Nyayo and MV Kilindini.

Impunity as KFS still running unseaworthy vessels in Likoni

Even before the bodies of Mariam Kighenda, 35, and her four-year-old daughter Amanda Mutheu are buried, impunity is still at play at the Likoni crossing channel with little having seemingly changed. Kenya Ferry Services (KFS) is still running the already declared unseaworthy vessels with their ramps still ploughing in water. By Monday, MV Harambee, whose […]

Another disaster in waiting at Kenya Ferry Services… This is MV Likoni

This follows Saturday night incident when MV Likoni ‘s iron sheet roof was almost blown off by strong winds causing panic among ferry users.

Wife’s last conversation with me, husband of Likoni ferry victim speaks out

Ferry passengers, who witnessed the incident, said Mariam Kigenda’s car reversed and plunged into the ocean while the vessel was midstream.