Nakuru woman wails in pain after discovering missing son was killed in protest: "Mngeniua mimi"

Nakuru woman wails in pain after discovering missing son was killed in protest: "Mngeniua mimi"

Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

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Nakuru - A family is devastated after learning that their missing son was among those fatally shot during Tuesday, June 25, protests against the controversial Finance Bill 2024.

The family of Kevin Madanga had been searching for him for days before they found his body at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital mortuary.

Madanga's family has been left in anguish after discovering that their son was among those killed in the Generation Z anti-Finance Bill protest.

“Our efforts to search for Madanga have ended today after we found him in the hospital’s mortuary, with his body listed with unidentified people,” Madanga's mother, Violet Gwezima, said.

Gwezima wailed in pain as she narrated how the police allegedly shot his son three times when protesters attempted to storm State House Nakuru.

The single mother said she educated her children in pain and hoped they would rescue the family from poverty, but her hopes had been crushed.

She cursed President William Ruto's administration for allegedly taking away the life of her son, saying she should have

The woman said her son disappeared last Tuesday, and they looked for him everywhere for over four days

Gwezima said her son, who was in his First Year at Teachers Training College in Migori County, was only defending the issues raised by other Kenyans after he was sent home for school fees,

“I am in pain. My heart is aching for my dead son, who was very close to me. My son wanted to defend his fellow Kenyans, and he was fighting for them, only to be killed! They should have killed me instead of him,” she said while wailing.

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