It was a scene straight from hell

• Remains of babies, children and adults were all strewn everywhere after slum fire

I overheard him ask on phone if “arrangements can be made to have a funeral home allow the government to use its cold room in Industrial Area to keep the bodies.”

Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu and his Makadara colleague Gidion Mbuvi stormed the scene; but when they saw the extent of the calamity, they quietly walked away.

Government chief whip Johnstone Muthama walked through the scene, spat on the ground and crushed the lump of saliva with new black gumboots. He trudged on, avoiding bodies.

The entourage of Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka was at the scene preparing for his arrival.

I walked away. I had spent four hours listening to the people re-tell how the fire began and mourning their kith and kin.

A politician’s comment is the last thing I wanted: those people were living in such squalor because of the bad policies.