A lot has been said about Violet Kemunto, the Al Shabab bride who was married to Ali Salim Gichunge, one of the terrorists who killed more than 21 innocent people at 14 Riverside on Tuesday last week.
Most people thought that Violet, was just but a girl who fell in love with the wrong person, a terrorist. But we could be so far from the truth. According to fresh details, It could be the woman who actually masterminded the whole attack and then ran away.
According to investigations, Kemunto is a hardcore criminal who is known to be tough in gun tactics, having been trained in Somalia in 2017. Police also revealed that the woman, a graduate of Masinde Muliro University had six phones all registered to her name and which she was using to communicate with her bosses in Somalia.
She is described as a person who never spoke to neighbors during her time at Mucathe Estate where she stayed with Ali Salim Gichunge. She was a stay-at home wife. This is the time where she planned the whole attack.
With a degree in Communications, Violet was the pilot of the whole plot. She knew how to divert attention and she somehow convinced her ‘husband’ to be the lead soldier in the attack, promising him 72 virgins if he died in the holy war.
Not much is known about Gichunge’s education background apart from the fact that he scored a C+ in KCSE 2011. This coupled with the fact that he wanted the good things in life made him easy to manipulate.
In the days leading to the attack, she advertised all the household items through a Pseudo account in a Facebook group. She knew very well she would need the money.
After that, she is said to have send some of her belongings to Mandera through courier services with plans to escape to Somalia after the attack. Police reveal that she didn’t turn up to take her things and she is MIA.
She is believed to have escaped on Monday, at least 24 hours before the Dusit Attack. I don’t know how she said goodbye to her husband, but I am sure it had something to do with ‘nothing can happen except what Allah has planned for you’
So as Ali was killing people at Dusit, his wife was escaping to Somalia, where we suspect she is with another man. Yaani dame anakudanganya ukufe na yeye anatoroka.
This is a lesson to all the single men out there, before you settle down with one of these beautiful Nairobi ladies, kindly ask her to produce a valid certificate of good conduct. Kaa rada!