It was supposed to be one of the ‘live happily ever after’ story for Irene Kendi—the 24-year-old widow of Samuel Ragira, popularly known as OCS—a former University of Nairobi student leader—whose life was abruptly cut short by bullets on Friday night, at a notorious eatery for students just outside the main hostels.
Kendi, is still struggling to come to terms with her husband’s death. The one call she received while in a salon that Thursday night has changed her life forever, and for the worst.
“I can’t believe my husband is dead. It seems like he’s going to come back home today in the evening,” she told Capital FM News on Saturday during a visit to her house in Kahawa West where the family lives.
“If only the police could speed up the investigations it will perhaps, help us understand who killed my husband, and why,” she said, fighting back tears, as she clutched on her three-year-old daughter, who did not seem to understand the gravity of the happenings around her.
Kendi described her late husband as a “charming and caring man’.
“I do not know how to explain to my daughter that his father has been killed under unclear circumstances. They were very close that she keeps on asking me when her dad will come back home. I just wonder why he was the one to take the bullet,” she narrated.
Some of the students who identified themselves as Ragira’s friends from UoN also visited to comfort her.
In tears, Ragira’s widow asked the government to support her and her daughter as the late husband was the breadwinner of the family, and she has appealed to the Director of criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti to speed up the probe, leading to the arrest and prosecution of his killers.
“At the moment, I have no source of income, I don’t know how I will pay for my child’s (school) fees. I just want to request the government to support me as I start this new journey. I badly want the police to hurry and tell me who killed my husband so that I can move on in peace, ” she narrated amid sobs.