NAKUPENDA BABE: LAST MOMENTS OF PWANI VARSITY STUDENT

When it was apparent that the end was near and that she might not survive, Destiny Dina filmed what would be her last moments alive, and posted the videos on TikTok.

She, together with 13 others, perished on the spot when the Pwani University bus that was headed for Eldoret crashed, tragically bringing to an end the journey.

Dina is among the members of the Pwani University team that was to represent the school at the national Kenya University Students Association (Kusa) games at the University of Eldoret.

The institution’s bus hit a 14-seater matatu in Kayole area of the Nairobi-Naivasha highway before landing in a ditch.

A journey that had started at midnight on Thursday was halted fatally and abruptly, and with casualties.

The video taken by Dina, a third-year student at the School of Science, shows her strapped in a seat belt, leaning towards the window, and looking calm and composed. She appears to have made peace with destiny.

“I love you so much, my 100,000 followers,” a helpless Dina posted a few minutes before the bus crashed. This was to be her very last social media post.

Her face bore a charming smile until the very end, said Ezekiel Musera, a former basketball team member who just graduated in February 2023.

Dina joined the basketball team when Musera was a senior student, and they struck a bond immediately.

While Musera does not remember their first conversation, he can never forget their last.

“I had posted a past photo of my young self online, to which she responded with, ‘Life and how it happens’”, Musera recounted.

He says he has lost a jovial and lively friend, and that the school has lost a counsellor.

“Dina was also a peer counsellor at school. She was always ready to assist anyone where she could,” Musera said.

For over two kilometres, the accident survivors recounted, the vehicle’s braking system had failed, and the students on board had begun making peace with fate as they inched closer to disaster. It was a tense and horrific last minute.

But even though they had had time to prepare for the end, a strange silence engulfed the bus as they approached Kayole area. This is when the reality of the imminent death sank in, says Ian Okoth, a survivor.

Okoth was a member of the football team. He survived an accident some of his peers did not.

When we caught up with him, the second-year student pursuing a Bachelor of Philosophy degree was still reeling from shock.

When it was evident that the driver had no control of the brakes, he fastened his safety belt, began to pray and quietly waited for whatever would happen next.

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