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Hoping to reunite 30 years on

 Mama Brigit Nafula dispalys her husband picture at Namakoye village in Bungoma County, her husband Ernest Wawire who went missing saying hes secured a job in Meru back in 1986. By Benjamin Sak

After 12-years of marriage that was generally blissful, Ernest Kalainga Wawire left his wife Brigit Nafula in their rural home in Namakoye village, Navakholo, Kakamega County to look for opportunities to improve their lot.

That was in 1986, the last time Nafula, now 61, saw her husband.

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