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Insensitively mute: Chirchir silent as Kenyans die on roads

Seven people died in an accident that involved two vehicles at Koromboi area in Kitengela Kajiado county on Saturday morning. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard]

As Kenya’s highways turn into pathways to hell, where more than 100 have died in horror crashes, citizens are wondering where the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Roads, Davis Chirchir, is.

The cacophony of screams from accidents victims, the wailing of the maimed, and cries of relatives mourning their dead have not roused a response from the mandarins at the ministry headquarters to console and explain to Kenyans why their highways have become death traps.

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