Painful questions linger as Nakuru parents mourn teenagers in New Year crash

The wreckage of the car involved in an accident that killed five people on the spot near Salgaa along Nakuru Eldoret highway on New Year. [PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH/ STANDARD]

NAIROBI: A police officer has confessed that one of the five teenagers killed in a road accident at a black spot in Salgaa, Nakuru County, on New Year’s Day was driving his car which they had hired. Julius Kioko, an Administration Police Officer, said the teenagers — Kevin Kamuri Chege, Bill Kamau, Brian Ndungu Kariuki, Derrick Mbugua and Dominic Mwangi — must have picked the car from one of his friends.

But in a strange twist, the officer said he had lost his friend’s contact. “I do not have his contacts. I lost them,” the officer said when pressed about the friend he had given the vehicle.