You can smell disdain from 100 kilometres away!
Except for these guys, the subject of the story, almost everyone else in that rescue mission was being paid! Even if these were not given an official contract, this is Kenya na huwa kuna pesa ya matanga!
[SIZE=6]How plane crash victims were sneaked to Lee[/SIZE]
War songs and threats rock plans to ferry the remains out of Nyandarua.
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War songs, shitstorm and threats rocked the release of bodies of FlySax plane crash victims from Njabini in Nyandarua to Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi.
From the forest, the plan was to take the remains of the eight passengers and two crew members to the command centre at Njabini Boys High School before ferrying them to the capital.
This was never to be due to the trouble caused by the over 300 young men, who claimed to have helped in the evacuation of the 10 bodies from Elephant Point at the peak of Aberdare Ranges
Instead, the bodies were literally sneaked out under the cover of darkness after a series of cat and mouse and games between the youths on one side and police and Red Cross workers on the other.
SONGS
Like Somalia pirates, the rowdy mob wanted to hold the remains until they are paid.
They attempted to block vehicles that had been lined up to ferry the remains until they are “appreciated”.
Chanting and dancing to Kikuyu war songs, the protesters blocked the road connecting the Kinangop deputy county commissioner’s office and the Njabini-Nairobi highway demanding to be paid.
“We understand the government always sets aside some emergency funds for such operations,” shouted one of the young men.
“The National Disaster Management Unit is well funded by the government to finance such emergency operations. We want our money now.”
Some alleged that they abandoned work on their farms and other casual jobs to help police, the military, the NDMU and Red Cross find and remove the bodies.
“We are not fools. You want to do to us what others have done to the NYS?” charged another youth, who seemed intoxicated, in reference to the Sh8 billion scandal at the National Youth Service.
‘SNEAKED’
“The bodies will not leave for Nairobi before we are cleared.”
Efforts by the police to reason with the young men fell on deaf ears, as they staged more drama to the chagrin of bereaved families and government officials.
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