The executive director of Haki Africa Hussein Khalid has weighed in on the Likoni Ferry Crossing tragedy that resulted in the sinking of a car with a woman and a child after rolling back.
Speaking exclusively in an interview with NTV, the Haki Africa supremo hit out at the Kenyan government over the manner in which tragic incident that transpired on Sunday has been dealt with.
He wondered why the Kenya Navy had been brought to help in the recovery efforts.
"The distressing thing is that just metres away from here there are hundreds of military officers who could have have helped."
(Jambo la kusikitisha ni kwamba mita kadhaa tu hapa kuna zaidi ya mamia ya wanajeshi ambao wako pale wangeweza kusaidia katika shughuli hii lakini tunaona kuwa serikali haijatilia mkazo kabisa), " Mr Kahild Hussein said.
The Kenya Ferry Services (KFS) started the recovery effort on Tuesday, over 48 hours after the tragedy occurred.
Khalid said that the effort was moving at a distressingly glacial pace, forcing the family of the victims to dip into their pockets to hire a private diver.
He contended that the government had not contributed much to the recovery effort.
KFS has come under blistering criticism from a section of Kenyans over what they have described as negligence.