Patel keeps off Solai dam victims’ funeral service

A mourner overwhelmed by emotions during the funeral service of Solai dam tragedy victims in Nakuru County on May 16, 2018. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Owners of Patel Coffee farm, where a dam burst killing 47 people, yesterday kept off the requiem mass for victims held a few metres from the scene of tragedy.

Not even Mansukh Patel, the chairman of the Solai Group of Companies, who had 24 hours earlier consoled the families of the victims, attended the interdenominational funeral service at Solai AIC Church grounds.