This archive report was first published on 5 October 2019.
Published on October 5, 2019, a Swedish diver, Volker Bassen, and his team were tasked with recovering the bodies of Mariam Kighenda and her daughter Amanda Mutheu from the Indian Ocean after their car slid into the water at the Likoni Channel.
However, despite promising Kenyans that he would accomplish the job in just two hours, Bassen was forced to retract his statement after failing to locate the bodies due to poor visibility and the deep channel.
“I want to retract on my earlier statement that I would recover the car and the bodies in just two hours. There is zero visibility and channel is very deep,” Bassen said, praising the Kenya Navy divers whom he worked with for being “brilliant”.
Government spokesman Cyrus Oguna stated that searchers made 16 dives yesterday in three places where they hoped to make a recovery but they did not succeed. The operation headed by the Kenya Navy would continue today.
Ms Jackline Wafula, aunt to John Wambua, the husband to Kighenda, expressed hope that the additional divers would succeed in the search mission.
