Citizen journalism has gone to the extreme

Recently in Kasarani, Nairobi area, a school girl was kidnapped on her way home from school. She was identified as Liz. She was later found raped, murdered and her body dumped near a river. A few days later, was her funeral. Someone shared a picture of her lying in a coffin and dressed in a white dress that looked like that of a bride.

A couple of days later, a lady in her third year of study was visited by her ex-boyfriend. She was living in a rented house near the campus. It is not clear what transpired between the couple but the next day, she was found dead. Her boyfriend was nowhere to be found. It is alleged that he had strangled her and escaped in the mid of the night. The neighbors alerted the police and as the body was being taken to the mortuary, someone took pictures and shared them on WhatsApp. Before long, they had spread like bushfire.