Professional negligence is killing our people, we must stop it

Catherine Achayo Mbandu died aged 29 on February 20, 2022. [Courtesy, CITAM Church]

My heart was greatly pained this past week as I sat in the funeral service of a 29-year-old daughter of one of our pastors. She was involved in a grisly road accident at the railway bridge on Ngong Road Nairobi two Sundays ago.

She and three others – including two Canadians died on the spot, while two others are still fighting for their lives in critical condition in hospital. The situation was that they did not realise that, whereas this section of the road has three lanes, the outer lane comes to an abrupt end leading straight into a gorge. Their vehicle missed the bridge and plunged down into the deep gorge with the railway line below.