A team of divers searches for the bodies of three helicopter crash victims at Lake Nakuru. [Photo|Standard Digital]
Remains of two people who died in a tragic helicopter crash at Lake Nakuru are still missing, two weeks after the accident.
The slow pace of the search is due to lack of commitment from the search team, former Naivasha MP John Mututho has said.
The former legislator told the Nation that the 31-member team compromising divers from Kenya Navy, Sonko Rescue Team, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries and Bomet County government was not keen to find and retrieve the bodies since the accident on October 21.
"The mission should have taken less than 24 hours," he said on Friday.
Mututho, Nakuru Governor candidate in August 8 polls, added that the tragedy should be a lesson to the county government which he claimed had failed to rehabilitate the lake.
"The mission to search for the missing bodies is being hampered by the dirty water caused by sewage finding its way into the lake," he added.
Even with sophisticated equipment and reinforcements, the team has not reported success in the past 10 days, since two bodies were recovered two days after the crash.
The bodies of pilot Apollo Malowa and Anthony Kipyegon were recovered on October 23.
John Mapozi’s body was found on Saturday, November 04, 2017.
Still missing are the bodies of Veronicah Muthoni, Sam Gitau.
A diver from Sonko Rescue Team said although the search mission was challenging, the team was determined to accomplish it.
"Divers spend long hours inside the water, blindly trying to find the debris that is yet to be located by geologists and other experts," said Moses Owaga, 50.