A sad and disgraceful story of recklessness at Kenya’s busiest ferry crossing channel

Motorists line up in front of open ferry ramps crossing the Kilindini Channel of the Indian Ocean waters in Mombasa County on Friday, October 4, 2019. Danger seems to loom with the ferry prows just hanging on the waters as no chains to hold the cars in case of a slight move. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]

Today is day six of search and recovery efforts of the remains of a mother and child who died after their car rolled off a ferry on Mombasa’s Likoni crossing and plunged to the depths of the sea.

Yet, 144 hours later, the grieving husband is yet to receive the bodies of his two departed family members following what looks like an avoidable tragedy.