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Please come back, parents plead with girl who left home over WhatsApp

Sheilla Kagendo

It is now a week since Sheilla Kagendo was last seen at her parent’s home in Valley View estate, Mihang’o in Nairobi.

The 13-year-old pupil disappeared on April 24 at mid-day. Her mother took her mobile phone because she was spending too much time on WhatsApp, a popular social media app for chatting. Lenna Mwaniki, her mother, told The Standard Saturday that two months ago she had an agreement with her first born child that she would delete her WhatsApp- application in order to concentrate on class work. The mother reckoned that the girl ought to be concentrating on her studies given that she is set to sit for Kenya Certificate of Primary School Education examination this year. The girl initially obeyed but she downloaded the application again. In a bid to discipline her, the mother took away the phone. And that is when trouble started.

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