Heartrending tales: Families cry out for justice

Ida Odinga (left) and Nominated MP Dennitah Ghati during the vigil at the University of Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Families of the more than 40 women killed in recent past painfully narrated circumsatnces under which they lost their loved ones during the vigil at the University of Nairobi.

They said most of the slain women were young and promising. “She was my only hope. She was the one who used to care for me,” said Elizabeth Moraa, mother to the late police officer Hellen Kwamboka, who was based at Parliament. Ms Moraa fought back tears as she narrated how Kwamboka was murdered a week ago in Umoja. Father to the late Caroline Mwatha, a rights activist who went missing before her family found her body at City Mortuary said: “We see her children everyday as we prepare them for school and I remember my daughter.”