The brutal muder of Ivy Wangechi continues to elicit mixed reactions among Kenyans even as Ivy’s family seem to have kind of accepted the fact that their daughter is no more thanks to a dreaded killer who could not just stomach the pain of not being loved back the way he expected.
Today saw Ivy Wangeci’s family transfer her body from MTRH, Eldoret to Thika’s Kenyatta University Referral Hospital Mortuary as they begin plans to lay her to rest.
And in Wangeci’s Thika home, relatives and neighbours are yet to come to terms with the murder that cut short the life of the promising student. Neighbours described her as a social and disciplined girl.
According to a vegetable grocer who operates a few metres from Wangeci’s home, they had been eagerly waiting for her graduation.
“We had organised a graduation party for her as she is the only student to pursue medicine in the area. We had a lot of hope in our young girl but her life was cut short. It is a sad moment for this area,” she said.
When journalists visited Wangeci’s family home at Makongeni Phase 10, only a few of her relatives were at home.
They declined to talk to the media saying they were waiting for investigations to be concluded. There was information that her close family members had travelled to Eldoret to pick her body.
In Nairobi, a group of university student leaders called on the government to ensure justice for Wangeci.
Led by the newly elected University of Nairobi Students Association (UNSA) chair Ann Mvurya, the students lamented the increasing incidents of students dying under tragic circumstances.
“We have witnessed myriad cases of deaths of comrades. How many will we lose their lives in the hands of these murderers and how safe are comrades in campus?” posed Mvurya.