Kenyan national drowns, dies in Nile River
The Kenyan community in South Sudan is searching for a fellow national who drowned and died in the Nile River, South Sudan’s biggest water source stretching 250 meters wide.
According to details extended to The City Review, Ezra Ogega Michira, ID Number 32432736, hails from Kisii County in the Republic of Kenya.
He was an employee of Urgent Logistics Limited in the South Sudanese capital, Juba. Michira drowned on 12th February 2022.
The Embassy of the Republic of Kenya says members of the Kenyan community in Juba have been searching for his body using hired boats and personnel since then.
The diplomatic mission has appealed for support to facilitate the search and probable retrieval of the body.
“The family and friends of the late Michira are appealing for financial and material support from well-wishers and people of goodwill in order to continue with the search and retrieval of his body from [the] River Nile,” Samuel Maina Kairu, Kenya’s Ambassador to South Sudan said.
He also appealed to the government of South Sudan to render the necessary support the Kenyan community might need to facilitate a successful search.
“The Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Juba kindly requests the concerned authorities of the government of South Sudan to provide them with all the necessary assistance that they might require,” Maina said.
The South Sudan National Police Spokesperson Maj. Gen. Daniel Justin was not immediately available for comments as his phone rang unanswered.
Meanwhile, cases of residents from the capital drowning in the Nile River have not been frequently reported.
In 2021, however, 15 bodies of children who drowned in the Nile River were recovered. But this happened along the shores of the Nile River in the Halfa Muluk area, North of Khartoum in neighbouring Sudan.
