Women MPs vow to boycott Mashujaa Day celebrations over Likoni tragedy
A section of women legislators has threatened to camp at Likoni Channel during Mashujaa Day celebrations if bodies of a mother and daughter who drowned in the Indian Ocean will not have been retrieved. The leaders allied to Jubilee Party’s Inua Mama faction on Friday criticised the government for taking too long to retrieve bodies of Miriam […]
Musa Sila: The 54-yr-old Likoni diver hired to retrieve bodies in sea
When it comes to the underwater world, he dives like an amphibian and swims like a fish. And when he resurfaces, it is amid cheers of an acclaimed hero. His name is Musa Sila, a Mombasa-based private rescue diver who is increasingly attracting admirers over daredevil feats in the ongoing search for bodies of Mariam […]
Joho says to fly in SA divers to retrieve bodies from sea
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho says he has sent for diving experts from South Africa to help multi-agency team in the Likoni Ferry tragedy. The bodies of Mariam Kigenda and her daughter are yet to be retrieved from the bottom of the Indian Ocean in the Likoni channel. “It has been a painful wait for the […]
Ferry operations stopped, victims’ bodies, car spotted in separate locations
The vehicle which they were travelling in, a Toyota Isis, has been located 173 feet below the water surface.
Govt acquires equipment from SA firm to retrieve bodies in Likoni accident
Coast Regional Coordinator John Elungata on Monday said that Kenya Ferry Services Managing Director Bakari Gowa should take responsibility for the Sunday accident at the Likoni Ferry. The regional administrator said operation to retrieve bodies of a woman and her daughter from Indian Ocean was delayed over lack of equipment to pull out the car […]
Where are the divers? Likoni Ferry victims’ family asks
Over 12 hours after a saloon car plunged into the Indian Ocean killing a mother and her 4-year-old daughter, the family of the deceased is yet to receive the bodies of their loved ones. Mariam Kigenda Taita, 35, and daughter died after the vehicle they were traveling in slid off MV Harambee Sunday evening. Grief-stricken […]
End of ferries? Construction of 1.6Km Likoni bridge ‘to begin soon’
By Fred Kai. The Kenyan Government projects that in the next two years, beginning July, 2019, it would have started to construct a 1.6 kilometer bridge at Likoni that connects Mombasa and Kwale counties. Senior Engineer, Samuel Omer, who is the director – Highway Planning and Design, says regular ferry breakdowns often result in large […]