Where is Violet Kemunto Omwoyo?

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Where is Violet Kemunto Omwoyo the widow of Ali Salim Gichunge? Was she the financier of the 14 Riverside attack? Was she the planner? Did she recruit her husband into the barbaric act in which more than 21 people died?

How could a young woman who cut the image of the average Nairobi girl and who, according to accounts, was a kind, friendly, calm person suddenly turn into an extremist?

Detectives are mulling over these questions that continue to haunt Kenyans. Investigators Friday stormed into the house in which she lived with Ali Salim Gichunge to find out answers.

Whereas reports earlier this week indicated that the police had arrested her, the mystery further deepened Friday when she was not among the five suspects presented in court in connection with the attack.

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On Friday, at least 30 officers camped at house number E7 in Guango Estate, Kiambu, where she lived with her husband.

The number of police officers and the kind of equipment they carried, which included specialised forensics investigation gear, pointed to the residence being the important clue to solving the Dusit attack.

The kind of force present at her residence proved that solving how a university graduate who, as recently as 2016, enjoyed partying in the clubs of Kisii town, was complex.

Whatever happened to Kemunto is a question that her friends and relatives want answered. In June 2016, Kemunto travelled to Kisii to visit her relatives. During the visit, she met a couple of friends and relatives with whom she took pictures and posted on various social media platforms.

While in Kisii, Kemunto went about her routine without the normal Muslim dressing of a buibui. During that time, Kemunto was using Violet Omwoyo as her Facebook name.

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In October 2016, she changed her Facebook name to Didgesupuu Omwoyo. Friends say the name ‘Didge’ in Didgesupuu is a short version of her Islamic name, Khadija, while ‘Supuu’ is slang for ‘beautiful’.

After that, Kemunto went under. “We don’t know where she went to. She disappeared and spoke to no one,” one of her sisters said.

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