Stigma attached to disappearance serves double anguish to Kakamega families

KAKAMEGA: Timothy Baraza's brother has been missing since 2008. For the family, the last six years have been the longest and most agonising. Since the brother, Reuben Mukitanga, disappeared, the family has been torn between hope and despair. Sometimes, soothsayers promised to get Reuben home in one piece and soon but as days passed without any sign of him, the family was left with doubts.

There at times they think Reuben's disappearance was a result of witchcraft. Before 2008, he had disappeared two times but reappeared after a while; the first time being 1991 but returned three years later.