Baby Satrin Osinya: Mixed fortunes for closely knit family

Moses Gift (left) holds his injured brother Satrin Osinya at Coast General Hospital, Mombasa in March 2014. (Photo:Maarufu Mohammed/Standard)

Mombasa, Kenya: One evening last week, we visited Benson Osinya and his two sons Peter and Erick in their home in Likoni, Mombasa. They were preparing the evening meal, the most difficult responsibility the three Osinyas find themselves grappling with every day, they say.

It is something they did not have to worry about four months ago when the matriarch of the family took care of this without much ado. Then a terrorist’s bullet in a church in Likoni on March 23 ended Veronica Osinya’s life, turning the family’s routine into a chore.