Kenyans divided over whether Violet Kemunto was a woman in love with the wrong Person or a Bloody Terrorist?

As investigations into the horrendous Riverside Attack take center stage, Kenyans have been left in shock with news that a former Masinde Muliro student Violet Kemunto Omwoyo was the wife of one of the attackers.

Violet was the wife of the attack mastermind Ali Salim Gichuge. The couple stayed together at an upmarket apartment in Mucatha.

But was she a victim of circumstance blinded by infatuation, or was she a willing participant driven by twisted moral judgments? That is the million dollar question on everyone’s lips.

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.

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.

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