Twins' saga a comedy of errors and painful search for identity

You are almost tempted to call the saga of the Kakamega girls suspected to be twins a comedy of errors, after Shakespeare’s famous play. Yet, what is at play is far too agonising to be reduced to a lagoon of dramatic blunders. It is a painful searchfor identity; a matter that has troubled humankind through millennia.

We have read, this week, of the unfolding drama of Sharon Mathias and Melon Luteyo, both aged 19. The two girls are said to have been born in the same week in the same hospital, in Kakamega. It begins emerging today that there may have been a mix-up somewhere, that led to them being separated at the cradle.