By RENSON BULUMA
Busia, Nairobi: Grief engulfed Nambale Boys High School in Busia County during a requiem service for five students.
The five died in a grisly road accident last Friday while on education tour along the Nakuru - Marigat road.
Hundreds of relatives, friends, education fraternity, politicians and well-wishers thronged the school to pay their last respects to the departed Form Four students and consoled the bereaved families.
Busia Governor Sospeter Ojaamong and his deputy Governor Kizito Wangalwa were among mourners.
The bodies had been preserved at Tanaka Nursing home mortuary.
The ceremony was presided over by ACK Nambale Diocese Bishop Josiah Were Mahandia.
Area MP John Bunyasi said the tragedy should not be used to deny students opportunity for educational tours in future. “Such tours are important because they help expose our children to the outside world,” said Bunyasi.
Ojaamong said the tragedy had robbed the county resourceful persons and asked the families and the school community to be strong during these trying moments.
“Innocent lives are being lost on our highways because traffic police have failed to enforce the law,” said Busia County woman representative Florence Mutua. The bodies were later transferred to their respective homes for burial.
