Musician KarehB, the mother to a son who died in the Chavakali Boys bus accident has spoken. In an emotional post on Facebook, KarehB mourned her son with questions.
Her 17-year-old son passed away in an accident that left 33 students injured.
“I need answers am breaking apart,” KarehB said.
KarehB questioned the Ministry of Education on why students were permitted to travel at night.
“Who permitted minors to travel at night? Transport and Roads Minister; was the whole traffic Marshall asleep that no one noticed minors traveling at night?”
She further questioned why the government has been silent about the accident.
“Are you going to continue being silent and lose more children on the roads, what measures are you putting in place to curb the accidents doing the rounds, especially the young generation,” she added.
“I need answers, go well my son.”
The Monday night accident occurred along Kisumu-Kakamega Highway, the bus was ferrying students to Nairobi following the closure of schools for the first term.
According to eyewitnesses, the driver lost control at the Mamboleo roundabout in Kisumu.
The injured were rushed to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu for treatment, police said.
Nyanza Regional Traffic Commander, Allan Mwangi, said they were looking for the driver of the bus for questioning as part of the probe into the accident.
He said the driver seemed to have been negotiating the roundabout when he lost control of the bus hit the guard rail and landed on the edge of the road.
This comes amid an ongoing campaign to address the rising cases of accidents in the country.
Police and officials from the National Transport and Safety Authority are engaged in a campaign to address the menace on the roads.
More than 1, 000 people have lost their lives in road accidents since January this year.
Tens of others are nursing wounds in various places after the accidents.
Speeding was the major cause of road carnage as well as overlapping, drunk driving, recklessness and unroadworthy vehicles.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki raised concerns over the increase in road fatalities in the country.
The CS noted that deaths from road accidents are competing with those of serious epidemics.
“We had COVID-19, a terrible epidemic in two years, and the people who died out of the pandemic were over 4,000. Yet in one year alone 4,324 died out of crashes. This means that this problem is worse than the pandemics,” Kindiki stated.
