Bodies of two missing girls have been retrieved from abandoned quarry lake in Oloolua Ward, Kajiado North Constituency.
According to reports, the Grade 8 learners of Oloolua Primary School went missing on Sunday January 19 before their bodies were found floating in the quarry, one was retrieved yesterday and another today.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the girls may have drowned when they tried to rescue each other.
Oloolua Location Senior Chief Moses Ole Mpesha said the girls went missing and the case was reported to his office and later to police before the search started.
“The search ended in a quarry where the bodies were found, we were called that a body has been flouting in the water. These are dangerous abandoned quarries filled with water and this is a third body we are retrieving from the same quarry,” Mpesha said.
Kajiado North Sub-county administrator Samuel Muchiri said quarry owners must backfill them to avoid such disasters.
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He said they are waiting for notices to decommission the quarries in the sub county.
Oloolua Ward Representatives Eli Gor appealed to quarry owners to fence and backfill their quarries which are now death traps.
He also directed National Environmental Management Authority and other institutions to act by enforcing the orders.
The abandoned quarries in Kajiado North have become death traps with more than ten children having drowned in the recent past. Concerned authorities have put in little efforts to address the matter.
Residents accuse the county government of Kajiado of dragging their feet in ensuring the quarries are decommissioned adding that they there have been empty promises to address the matter.
They said the county government department of emergence has also no divers and when such disasters occur, private divers are recruited; a process which takes time.
By Obegi Malack
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