Reckless greed, not poverty, to blame for high number of tanker tragedies
A shell of the petrol tanker that burst into flames at Kapokyek on the Kericho-Kisumu road on Tuesday night. Photo/JACOB OWITI
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Fuel looters know as well as anybody that petrol is flammable but they ignore risk
There was Sidindi in Ugenya and Banana Hill in Kiambu. Then came the Sachang’wan fuel tanker tragedy which took the lives of 130 villagers near Molo on January 31. The burns of some of the Sachang’wan survivors are yet to heal. Six are still in hospital.
And on Wednesday, yet another villager died while 47 others are in hospital after being burnt at Kapokyek near Kericho Town when another tanker from which they were looting fuel exploded. That the villagers would — again— embark on such a suicidal mission barely four months after the Sachang’wan mass burial is mind-boggling.
