Air tragedy at Marsabit
Four days after a major training exercise that simulated a small plane crash at Komo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, a Y-12 government plane carrying senior government officials on their way to mediate clashes between tribes warring over access to water in drought-stricken Northern Kenya crashed into a hillside in Marsabit killing 14 of the 17 passengers on board.
Included among the dead are Bonaya Godana, Deputy Leader of the Official oppostion, two assistant ministers Mirugi Kariuki and Titus Ngoyoni and four other MPs - Guracha Galgalo and Abdi Sasura and regional Assembly member Abdullahi Adan - died.
There were only 3 survivors, Air Force flight engineer Joseph Mureithi, Senior Private Trevor Mwamunge and Eastern Provincial Commissioner Patrick Osare. Others who perished in the plane include the plane’s captain and his co-pilot Major David Njoroge and Captain Joseph Maina Mureithi, Bishop William Waqo, assistant Anglican bishop, Kirinyaga and personal assistant to Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, Eastern provincial police chief Thomas Chigamba, Mr G. M. Syanga, assistant secretary in the office of the President, John Ouma - Deputy Head, National Security Intelligence Service for the Eastern region and police constable Yusuf Guyo.
The BBC has a pictorial covering the crash site here.
The death of these citizens is a great loss to the country especially that of Dr. Godana whom I feel was one of the few politicians in the country who used his solid educational and professional background as a launching pad to champion the cause of his constituency and Kenyans in general in a very articulate and public way. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of these Kenyans at this very trying time.
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April 24, 2006, 7:19 pm[...] Kenyans mourned the passing of several people. There was a tragic plane crash where 14 people lost their lives, including several members of parliament and government officials, who were on a peace mission. Many kenyan bloggers had tributes, one of them was by Ntwiga who observed The death of these citizens is a great loss to the country especially that of Dr. Godana whom I feel was one of the few politicians in the country who used his solid educational and professional background as a launching pad to champion the cause of his constituency and Kenyans in general in a very articulate and public way. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of these Kenyans at this very trying time. [...]
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[...] Steve Ntwiga Mugiri reports and comments on the Kenyan air crash last Monday…”The death of these citizens is a great loss to the country especially that of Dr. Godana whom I feel was one of the few politicians in the country who used his solid educational and professional as a launch pad to champion the cause of his constituency and Kenyans in general in a very articulate and public way” [...]