The Kenyan Minister was speaking to the press after a curtesy call on the Prime Minister, Ephraim Inoni on Tuesday, the 8th of May 2007 at the star building at 11am. He said the audience offered him the opportunity to convey the heartfelt condolences of the Government of Kenya to the government and people of Cameroon, especially to the families that lost their loved ones in the crash.
Discussions with Cameroon's Head of Government, enabled both parties evaluate the level of cooperation and the work carried out since the fateful Saturday morning. Seven Committees were set up jointly during a meeting chaired by Cameroon's Secretary of State in the ministry of transport, and are already working.
First of all, the technical committee that is trying to put bits and pieces of the aircraft together, then, there is the team retrieving the bodies and property of passengers. Another committee takes care of communication and logistics while there is one coordinating the work of all the committees. All the committees include kenyan and Cameroonian nationals and Minister Mwakwere explained that he is very impressed by this systematic approach of the Cameroonian Government officials. To the bereaved families, he expressed the wish that God gives them the strength to bear the great loss.
On his part, Prime Minister, Head of Government Ephraim Inoni, who also expressed deep sympathy to the people and Government of Kenya, went on to assure the Kenyan Minister of Government's fullest collaboration to provide all that will enable the commissions work effectively. For the time being, efforts are geared towards comforting family members and providing them with as much information as the enquiry unfolds.
Honorable Chirau Ali Mwakwere who arrived Cameroon on Saturday afternoon was accompanied to the Prime Minister's Office by some of his close aides and the Sales and Marketing Executive of Kenyan Airways in Cameroon.
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Mwakwere Meets Cameroon Premier Ephraim InoniToday’s news updates include the following : Wreckage of the Douala crash found – 40 mutilated bodies recovered so far; Today is 2nd African Day for the reduction of maternal and neo-natal mortality; Certificate examinations for 2007 – 2008 under scrutiny by Secondary Education officials; Cameroon commemorates International Day of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement; Friedrich Herbert Foundation to host meeting on condition of the Cameroonian journalist.
The badly mutilated bodies of 40 passengers of the Kenya Airways plane that crashed at Banga Pongo near Douala have been retrieved from the wreckage. A special unit has been setup near the disaster site to reconstitute the bodies for easy identification and eventual burial. Another team of experts has been constituted to take care of the psycho-social worries of the affected families. Meanwhile, the government of Cameroon has opened an investigation into the crash that killed all 114 passengers on board the plane.
The investigation team created by Prime Minister Ephraim Inioni yesterday includes government officials and aviation experts from Cameroon, Kenya and the US Boeing company that manufactured the aircraft.
Meantime, the visiting Kenyan Minister of Transport, the Honourable Chirau Ali Mwakwere has expressed optimism that the high level of cooperation between Cameroonian and Kenyan authorities will greatly strengthen efforts to unravel the mystery surrounding the crash of Kenya Airways flight KQ 507 last Saturday 5 May 2007 in Douala.
After a courtesy audience granted him today in Douala by Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni, Mr. Chirau Ali Mwakwere said the joint-committees of representatives from Cameroon and Kenya should gather the data to shed light on the tragedy. He once again used the audience at the Star Building to convey his government’s condolences and deepest sympathy to the families of the passengers that perished in the crash.
After a courtesy audience granted him today in Douala by Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni, Mr. Chirau Ali Mwakwere said the joint-committees of representatives from Cameroon and Kenya should gather the data to shed light on the tragedy. He once again used the audience at the Star Building to convey his government’s condolences and deepest sympathy to the families of the passengers that perished in the crash.
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