Mother’s Day moving Facebook post brings long-lost kin together

Eric Kibaiku and his sister Faith Wamucii, and their late mother Lydia Akinyi Nyandegah. [Courtesy]

A fervent Facebook appeal, a grandma’s 22 good years of prayer and an immortal longing for reunion with blood and kin.

This is stuff of the miracle world that happened on Mother’s Day last Sunday when Eric Kibaiku, 29, set out looking for his mother who disappeared in 1996 after a domestic strife in Watuka village, Kieni, Nyeri.