MOROCCO FAILED LITTLE BOY RAYAN: HE WAS RESCUABLE AND SHOULD HAVE LIVED.

ICHEOKU says Private Ryan was saved but a real life little boy Rayan could not be saved just because the team that mounted the rescue operation fumbled the ball. It was absolute ineptitude and gross incompetence of the rescue team that led to the death of five year old boy Rayan. Little Rayan had a great resolve to live and he gave the Moroccan authorities everything they could have needed to help them save him but they still failed him, regardless. 

First, he fell into a 100 feet deep hole which could easily pass for a shallow hole in the drilling world. Second, it was a leg first, straight down fall, a somewhat rappelling down drop if anyone wants to see it that way, and he survived the fall. Third, he was alert and talking; and was able to reasonably communicate with the rescuers. Fourth, he was did not panic and stayed alive for four long days, alone and unafraid, inside the ten stories deep dark hole, hopefully and patiently  waiting for the Kingdom of Morocco authorities to get to him and pull him out alive. 

What else could the authorities in Morocco have expected from such an entrapped citizen, which the 5 year old little boy did not provide for them to make his rescue possible? In fact, he lived long enough to have been successfully rescued ten times over; and his death will forever haunt those rescuers for their unprofessionalism and lack of technical knowhow on how to mount an effective rescue operation. The whole circumstances were just about perfect for them to have done a better job and rescued little Rayan; and the weather held up as it was not raining either. 

The hole was only one hundred feet deep; they knew the exact location of the boy; they lowered a camera into the hole and saw him clearly. They also lowered oxygen, water and food to him; so why wasn't more stuff lowered to him in order to get him out. He was alert and not badly injured, so why didn't they lower a hard helmet, life jacket and suspenders to him and then guide him on how to strap them on; and using a harness, gradually hoist him up and out of the hole. Even if the crane was pulling him up at a maximum speed of about ten feet every one hour, it would have successfully and safely pulled him out alive within about ten hours.  

Instead, they wasted much valuable time digging up piles of dirt and at a distance; and after five long days of avoidable waste of time, little Rayan lost the will to wait and gave up. He died regretting that he was born in Morocco where the authorities are grossly inept and could not manage such a simple rescue operation. If that hole could fit the shoulders of the little boy, it means that it was also big enough to fit steel pipes, to shore the side walls and also pull Ryan  safely through. 

Even without such pipes, with the necessary harness, hard helmet and right rugged outfits, the job could still have been safely done. All they needed to do was remain in constant communication with little Rya as they gradually pulled him up, having guided him into those safety gears. 

In other climes, people buried far deeper underneath such as coal miners, and whose location are sometimes not even known, are still being safely rescued. But in Africa, in the Kingdom of Morocco, a little boy who fell into a mere 100 feet shallow hole and whose exact location was known, could not be safely rescued after five long days of waiting. It is exactly what Bob Marley's song "Waiting in vain" looks like and little Rayan experienced it first hand before he finally succumbed to death. 

ICHEOKU says whoever was in charge of the rescue attempt and also the emergency service in Morocco ought to resign in shame or be fired for the botched rescue. They let little Rayan down,  despite all the effort he made to stay alive and be rescued. His will to live was eventually overpowered by the incompetence of the Moroccan rescue team and his body yielded his spirit. 

Instead of excavating a parallel hole requiring such a heavy amount of earth removal and the constant fear of surrounding grounds giving way, they should have drilled a lateral hole adjacent to the boy's location and crawl him out from it. It is used in oil fracking and it was also the reason Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, claiming that Kuwait was stealing Iraq's oil through lateral drilling. A hundred feet deep hole could easily have been drilled using this method within a few hours and a stationary drill machine would have also dispensed with heavy earth-moving machinery, moving back and forth and heightening the fear of possible cave in. 

It is a lame excuse that diggers encountered "a hard rock" which further delayed the rescue effort, because hard rocks are reasonably to be expected as part of the subterranean structure; or were they expecting beach-sand under the earth? The supposed "experts" on topographical engineering should have known or at least anticipated that there could be "hard rock" beneath the earth's surface. 

All the people involved with the rescue attempt of the little Moroccan boy Rayan should resign in shame as they not only failed little Ryan, but every Moroccan and in fact the entire African continent. They did a very poor job and they failed woefully. Maybe, we should have sent Tom Hanks to the rescue. It is sad that little Rayan was not safely rescued. May his soul now rest.