Agony of family waiting for answers, months after kin's brutal murder

Brenda Gitonga and her grandmother Julia Nkaare at their Kambi Juu estate home on the outskirt of Isiolo town [Ali Abdi, Standard]

Today, young Brenda Gitonga could perhaps be cheerfully taking care of her father's dream project of constructing residential houses in a remote part of Meru County.

But that is not the case. Instead, into the fifth month, 23-year-old Brenda and some relatives is not only mourning the death of her father Steve Gitonga Ntari who was brutally murdered on July 3, 2025, but wondering why the probe seem to have stalled.