In the early hours of a Tuesday morning on the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway, a family traveling toward a new chapter — a child's university admission — was met instead by catastrophe. A trailer that lost its brakes crossed into their lane near Konza, killing Senior Superintendent of Prisons Alex Kazungu Mbitha and his 14-year-old daughter Claire Heri, and leaving three other family members seriously injured. Their story is one thread in a pattern Kenya knows too well: a nation that loses roughly 4,000 lives each year to roads that do not forgive mechanical failure, fatigue, or a single moment when
Prison Officer, 14-Year-Old Daughter Killed in Konza Highway Crash
Two people killed (senior prison officer and 14-year-old daughter) and three family members seriously injured in highway collision.