Better known as the “Good Samaritan”, Lumbasia says he has retrieved more than 70 bodies from rivers in western Kenya for more than 45 years. Advertisement“It was my most challenging task in my four decades of pulling out dead bodies from various rivers,” he says. He explained that traditional divers live by a strict code of conduct: they never bargain for payment, only accepting whatever bereaved families pay them. “It is taboo for traditional divers to demand a specific amount of money or even cows after retrieving a body,” he says. Lumbasia wants county governments to provide diving equipment to traditional divers for quick response during disasters.

Source: Daily Nation November 02, 2019 06:00 UTC