Pain as families seek help to trace kin's bodies in the Gulf

Ruth Atieno, mother of 25-year-old Caroline Aluoch who went missing after visiting Gulf in search of greener pastures, during a press conference at HAKI Africa offices in Nairobi on Wednesday, June 09 2021. [David Njaaga,Standard]

The news that Lucy Wambui was dead came through a Facebook post. The family was alerted a few days after last Christmas that a photo of Wambui was circulating on social media and that she had been found dead in her room in Baghdad, Iraq, where she had been employed as a domestic worker.

“It has been six months of writing to the Iraqi Embassy and travelling from Nyandarua to the city every week to see if we can get help. We have hit a dead end. We do not know what happened to Wambui and how she died,” says Harun Ng’ang’a, Wambui’s brother.