Eight years on, Nyeri mother hopes to see son alive

A picture of Paul Maina who has been missing since April 2008. PHOTO:KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD

Margaret Gathigia is a troubled woman. For the past eight years, she has been gazing at the horizon hoping her son Jackson Maina would come back to their home in Giakaibei Village, Mathira Constituency, Nyeri County.

Every few minutes she checks her phone, hoping Maina, who disappeared eight years ago at 28, on a cool April morning, would call.