Faki and Boy spoke on Thursday evening after the two senators visited the floating bridge to assess its effectiveness in ensuring there is no congestion while crossing the Likoni channel. The two said the floating bridge is ill-equipped to handle an emergency with the huge number of people using it. The senators said use of both the bridge and the ferries would be a more effective way of decongesting the ferries. Security officers deployed at the ferry at the onset of the mandatory use of the bridge directive allowed school children and persons with disability to use the ferries on Wednesday. Faki wrote a protest letter to Mombasa county commissioner Gilbert Kitiyo, Governor Hassan Joho and the Kenya Ferry Services management over the directive.

Source: The Star April 02, 2021 13:18 UTC