Empty promises as locals drown in river of death

Families, relatives and friends at the Mwingi Level Five Hospital's morgue to identify their departed ones who died at River Enziu in Mwingi Central. [Paul Mutua, Standard]

On the day morticians in Mwingi were working round the clock to embalm bodies of the victims of Enziu River tragedy, a sordid picture was emerging of residents left to drown year in year out by combined lethargy of both county and national governments.

As the national government slept on its promise to put up a bridge across the river of death, the county government ignored fixing, albeit on a temporary basis, a collapsed end of the makeshift bridge, which facilitated the deadly plunge.