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Lake Nakuru crash victims are still missing two months on after the accident. Technology and prayers have failed to recover the bodies of John Mapozi and Sam Gitau.

Bodies of Captain Apollo Malowa, Anthony Kipyegon and Veronica Muthoni were recovered and buried. The families of John Mapozi and Sam Gitau are still in agony there is no hope of recovering their kin.

What puzzles many people is the how Mapozi and Gitau’s bodies seem to have disappeared without a trace. Malowa and Kipyegon’s bodies were found floating on the shores of the lake just after two days.

Veronica’s body was recovered four weeks later in the helicopter wreck. But Mapozi and Gitau’s bodies disappeared without any trace.

Traditional rituals

Families have prayed as rescue operation searched the lake for months without any success in tracing Mapozi and Gitau’s bodies.

Technology and prayers have failed to recover the two missing bodies. Perhaps it’s time to explore the third option – use of traditional rituals.

Rituals have been used before all over Kenya to recover bodies of people who drowned. Elders should camp at the shores of the lake and conduct rituals to help with the search.

But the intriguing question now is whether the two bodies have already decomposed to the extent that nothing can be found.

 

 

Monday 20th November marks 32 days since the ill-fated chopper crashed into Lake Nakuru. The wreckage of the chopper was retrieved from the lake on Saturday.

There were hopes that the bodies of the last three victims of the chopper would be found in the wreckage. The bodies of pilot Apollo Malowa and Anthony Kipyegon were recovered two days after the crash

Divers were unable to find bodies of the remaining three victims believed to have been trapped in the chopper. The wreckage was discovered on Friday giving hope to victim’s families.

Veronicah Muthoni’s body

Veronicah Muthoni’s body was successfully retrieved from Lake Nakuru on Friday. The bodies of John Mapozi and Sam Gitau were however nowhere to be found when the wreckage was pulled out of the lake.

The recovery of Veronicah’s body from the helicopter’s wreckage had rekindled hopes of finding the bodies of Gitau and Mapozi.

The families of the two victims were heartbroken when they couldn’t find their kin’s bodies. National Disaster Operations desk officer Jonathan Kertich says the wreckage was located 2.44km on the western end of the lake and was lying about 5.4m deep.