Survivor marries KDF rescuer and feels safer

Maureen Mayengo at her home in Lanet, Nakuru, on Thursday. Mayengo survived the Garissa University massacre by hiding in a wardrobe for more than 12 hours. [PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH/STANDARD]

Maureen Mayengo considers Ivan Okello, the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier she married four months after the Garissa University College massacre her “shield and defender”.

On the day of the attack, the 21-year-old student hid in a closet unaware that brave Okello was among the soldiers who had stormed the dormitory where the gunmen were holed up.