A Look into the Social Media Life of Jihadist Sympathizer Violet Kemunto

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Was she a victim of circumstances blinded by infatuation, or was she a willing participant driven by twisted moral judgments? This is the question that a number of Kenyans are asking after Violent Kemunto, the wife to Salim Ali Gichunge, one of the killer terrorists that raided the Dusit D2 complex was arrested.

While she referred to herself as the bride of a terrorist, indicating she approved of the jihadist agenda of Gichunge, she liked to pamper herself on social media, suggesting she desired the earthly things most people want.

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And she was a mystery. On her Facebook page, friends tried to find out why she had been so ‘lost’, street lingo for missing in action.

She didn’t respond. One photo shows her hand with a wedding ring on one of the fingers, and in another post, she declared: “Nothing will happen to us except what God has written for us.”

She still indicated she was single on the Facebook page, and one of the accounts — Junior Red — which had her name, was used to advertise a quick sale for household goods on Monday, a day before the 14 Riverside Drive attack.

“We are moving out of Nairobi this week, so it’s a quick sale. Prices slightly negotiable,” the caption that accompanied pictures of the goods read.

The goods included shoes, a fridge, beds, mattresses, rice cookers, a TV set and couches.

On her WhatsApp profile, Kemunto refers to herself as an Al-Shabaab bride.

A picture of a woman in a niqab laced with blood, believed to have been extracted from the Internet, serves as her profile picture.

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