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Let accident on sodium cyanide be an eye-opener

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Sodium cyanide cylinders dumped a few metres from where lorry ferrying them overturned in Kambembe, Rironi. [Kimaku Chege, Standard]

In the last four days after an accident involving a truck carrying toxic sodium cyanide, there have been knee-jerk responses to this incident that has all the hallmarks of a huge health disaster.

It is unclear why such high-risk cargo being transported from Uganda to Congo strayed into Kenya, if a border customs check was done and why protocols in moving such toxic chemicals had been disregarded.

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