Detectives have launched a probe into the Likoni Ferry tragedy incident which left a woman, Mariam Kigenda, and her 4-year-old daughter Amanda Mutheu dead.
The two drowned after their vehicle reportedly reversed from MV Harambee and sunk into the Indian Ocean, while they were crossing at the Likoni Ferry Channel.
On Saturday, officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) probed two security guards who were on the ferry, in a bid to unravel the mystery behind the incident.
Likoni OCPD Benjamin Rotich said that three other people have been interrogated, and police have also taken pictures of the car for investigation purposes.
“So far we have questioned five people; two private security guards who were at the ferry on the said day, a coxswain and two top ferry managers,” said Rotich as quoted by Standard Digital.
Mariam's widower John Wambua has dismissed claims that the vehicle might have reversed.
He said that it was in parking gear and the handbrakes engaged at the time of the incident, which makes it impossible for it to move.
“The car was in parking gear and its handbrake up. We do not understand how the car in such a state could have slid into the ocean,” Wambua told the Standard on phone on Saturday.
The start of the probe was confirmed by Government Spokesman Col Cyrus Oguna who called upon Kenyans to let the investigations take their course and stop pointing fingers.
The vehicle and the bodies were recovered 13 days after the incident, an operation that took joint efforts from the Kenya Navy, private divers and South African professional divers.