As details of Tuesday’s brutal murder of Moi University student Ivy Wangeci continue to emerge, her stellar academic background shows a young lady dedicated to her studies and not tainted lady some may have led us to imagine.
Ms Wangeci scored straight A’s when wrote her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams at Alliance Girls in 2012 and got admitted to study Medicine and Surgery in Moi University.
She was set to graduate as a medical doctor in December but her life was cut short by a man identified by police as Naftali Kinuthia on Tuesday morning.
Before her brutal murder at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Wangechi’s star was still shining in the medical school, with her lecturers saying she was set to graduate with good grades.
The school’s Dean Lukoye Atwoli on Wednesday said Ms Wangechi was a good, hardworking student.
Whether reports of revenge are true or not, it is clear we have been robbed a potentially great doctor in the heinous act that is not justifiable at all.
It is alleged that the killer travelled to Eldoret on a number of occasions to meet her in vain and this made him unhappy, they revealed.
From what they could recall, Wangechi told them she had refused to see him on those occasions.
He would wait at the gate and leave without seeing her, they said she confided. However, the lively Wangechi had changed two weeks ago, they said.
Mr Kinuthia is also said to have been sending her money and other gifts on several occasions even after she warned him not to do so.
The attacker is still receiving treatment at the Moi Referral Hospital after members of the public attempted to lynch him but was rescued by police.
Ainabkoi police boss Lucy Kananu on Wednesday said the car Mr Kinuthia used, a Honda with the registration number KCB 836P, was being held at Naiberi Police Station as investigations into the murder progress.
Rest in Peace Ivy.