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'Army has been there for me since my husband was killed'

Anne Muthoni has been a beneficiary of the Kenya Defence Forces welfare programme after the death of her husband, Ephraim Gachoki, in Fafadum, Somalia, in 2012. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

Anne Muthoni was tending to her vegetable garden when an army truck drove into her home in Kirinyaga in 2012.

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