This letter from @HarrietOpoma broke my heart.
Here is a young Kenyan who went to school, worked hard, graduated with a degree, and has spent 10 years trying to find a breakthrough without success. Behind many smiles you see out here, there are painful private battles people rarely talk about.
Many young people are exhausted, not because they are lazy, but because opportunities have become so difficult to access.
I am sharing Harriet’s letter with hope that someone somewhere may help open a door for her.
If you know of a genuine opportunity that may help Harriet, kindly reach out.
Sometimes all someone needs is one chance.
May God remember and uplift every young Kenyan still trying despite the disappointments and closed doors.
Grace Wangare Thini is STILL missing.
A 16 year old girl vanished from St. Francis Mangu Girls High School and as every hour passes, the silence from those responsible becomes more suspicious, more painful and more dangerous.
Kenyans must refuse to sleep on this matter.
A child disappeared inside a boarding school.
Not in a market.
Not during riots.
Not while travelling alone.
Inside a controlled institution with gates, matrons, teachers, guards, dormitories and strict movement schedules.
That child did not simply evaporate into thin air.
The school knows something.
People inside that institution know what happened that night in that dormitory.
And instead of urgency, transparency and cooperation, what are we seeing?
Silence.
Deflection.
Arrogance.
Closed doors.
The principal is avoiding accountability while the Sub County Education Director appears more interested in shielding the school than helping a desperate family find their daughter.
This is no longer incompetence.
This is beginning to look like a deliberate effort to suppress the truth.
Meanwhile Grace’s parents are collapsing emotionally.
Her mother cries herself to sleep not knowing whether her daughter is cold, injured, terrified or even alive.
Her father is battling hypertension from stress and helplessness.
Imagine carrying your child for nine months, raising her, educating her, trusting a school with her future only for that child to disappear and the institution responds with silence and bureaucracy.
That pain can kill a parent.
Kenyans, this family cannot fight alone.
We must make noise.
We must demand answers.
We must force action.
Call the Ministry of Education.
Tag the DCI.
Tag child protection agencies.
Demand CCTV footage.
Demand accountability from the principal.
Demand immediate public communication from the school.
Because if a Form Four girl can disappear from one of the most guarded schools in Kenya and people remain silent, then no parent in this country should ever feel safe again.
Grace Wangare Thini is not a statistic.
She is a child.
And until she is found, this country must not rest.
@TheNairobiTimez Hii hype iliisha after the fight. Pushing it further is OK but will not amount to anything substantial now that Kenyans see beyond the event. Let them focus on other nation-building activities.
@SangKip4 Usiichukue . Let them know that there is an error for them to rectify.
If you take and you later need that changed, You will have to pay for amendments.