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  • Likoni Ferry Tragedy Updates: Chinese ROVs Find 6 More Cars At The Ocean bed

    Likoni Ferry Tragedy Updates: Chinese ROVs Find 6 More Cars At The Ocean bed

    Latest updates from one of the most and recent tragic ocean accidents in Kenya’s coastline have indicated that the operations have found 6 more objects, possible cars, at the bottom of the Ocean.

    The efforts to recorver the submurged car that claimed two lives with the bodies of the lost souls yet to be retrieved, had recieved a boost after Chinese divers joined the operations.

    https://twitter.com/BincoAfrica/status/1178713107012739072?s=19

    A sourced Picture of A portable ROV.

    “Chinese Remotely Operated Vehicles, ROVs, are submersible, robotic systems, used to observe the depths of large bodies of water by operators from shore, or by divers in the water, have spotted 6 more cars at the Sea Bed” Reads a tweet from KenyanTraffic.

    The tweet updates have been supported by government official Spokesperson Col. Rtd Cyrus Oguna while addresing the press in the afternoon.

    Video courtesy of NMG/Youtube.

    https://youtu.be/HT6Hgrkv1Tc

    Mombasa Governor Hassan Ali Joho has also spoken after a long mute since the accident occured in the waters at his Mombasa led County. Here is what the governor has said a few minutes ago via his official verified twitter account.

  • President Uhuru Sacks Eric Kiraithe

    President Uhuru Sacks Eric Kiraithe

    ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has issued a statement dated May 7, 2019 saying that Retired Colonel (Rtd) Cyrus Oguna replaces Eric Kiraithe as governments Spokesperson with immediate effect.

    The directive reads and I quote; “In line with directions from the Executive office of the President through the Head of Public Service, the office of the Government Spokesman shall be domiciled at the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology,”

    “He will also have content oversight role over the two government news gathering and dissemination channels; Kenya News Agency and MyGov,” the directive adds.

    Rtd. Col. Oguna was formerly the spokesman for the Kenya Defence Forces. He became popular and attracted so many public limelights with his tough talk when the KDF entered Somalia in 2011.

    He was the senior most spokesman in the former ‘Operation Linda Nchi.’  Oguna faded from the limelight immediately when KDF and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) joined forces.

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    Oguna replaces Eric Kiraithe, who previously served as the Kenya Police spokesman and Chief of Security at the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA).Kiraithe had served as Government spokesman since March 2016.