Kimathi grandson goes missing

By JAMES MUNYEKI

Nyeri, Kenya: The family of the late freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi is in agony following the disappearance of one of his grandsons. 36-year-old Dedan Kimathi Junior disappeared six days ago. Junior was reported missing at the Aberdare forest where he had gone mountain climbing.

According to the freedom fighter’s daughter Evelyn Kimathi, Junior who works as a matatu driver was in the company of two of his friends.

The two are motorbike operators who he had hired to take him to the mountain, she added.

“He refused to return home and opted to remain in the forest alone for reasons unknown to us or his friends. It was his friends who informed us of the development and we launched a search,” she told The Standard yesterday.

She said his friends had told the family that he had contacted them and requested them to take him to Aberdare where he would meet up friends with whom they had planned to go mountain climbing. He kept on lying to them that the friends were on the moorland.