The ill fated bus has been having issues since 2016. The ill fated bus had problems starting. The ill fated bus had brake problems so the driver was using gears to manage the speed on slopes.
In this latest accident, we have lost a doctor, a head master, a man has lost his wife and his child who was picked up by a good Samaritan and held in his arms but pronounced dead on arrival. A man has lost several members of his family his son and daughter in law after dowry negotiations. A mother who was coming from a funeral.
Don’t tell me about closing down the company or insurance. This is criminal Negligence and the owners or managers who failed to sort out the brakes should simply go to jail.
That mental picture of a child who was going to visit his paternal grandparents for the first time dying in the arms of a man who took a taxi to rush the child to hospital only for him to be dead on arrival is too much for me. Killing children is unforgivable. Why is it that if I kill my own child who I gave birth to I will go to jail but if Coast Modern kills a child through negligence there is no case to answer? I don’t know at what point we will be a country governed by law and order because this is just outrageous. Nothing can compensate that man whose lost his entire family. His wife and his baby. So people need jail time for them to start taking their responsibility seriously. Let their family members go to Kamiti for a few years and trust me things will change for the owners of this buses. They will not play with people’s lives like this.
The problem with us Kenyans is that we forget in a haste. Two weeks from now, this is a forgotten chapter. And so will the institutions mandated to investigate, prosecute and place corrective actions.
Do you remember Patel Dam deaths? Have you heard anything lately. What about collapsed buildings countrywide.