Watching Linet Adhiambo’s story on NTV about the tragic disappearance of her two children on May 13, 2026, in Komarock, Nairobi, is absolutely heartbreaking.
Linet revealed that her daughter knows all her important details, including her phone number, yet she has heard nothing from her or about the children since the day they went missing.
Her ordeal is a painful reminder of how risky it has become to leave children home unsupervised in Nairobi, as criminals are constantly lurking in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to snatch them.
Hi I'm lynet from Komarock I lost my kids date 13 may 2026 please 🙏 who ever see them please call me on these number 0726096432 name ,precious and Zennel
A 16 year old girl vanished from one of the most guarded girls schools in Kenya and the people running that institution are behaving like we are disturbing their peace by asking questions.
Read that again slowly.
A WHOLE CHILD disappeared.
Not outside a nightclub.
Not in a forest.
Not during chaos.
Inside a boarding school.
Inside St. Francis Mangu Girls in Kiambu County.
And what is shocking is not just the disappearance of Grace Wangare Thini.
It is the coldness.
The silence.
The arrogance.
The complete absence of urgency from people entrusted with children.
Grace disappeared on 10th April 2025.
The school only realised she was missing the following day after a teacher attending the third lesson noticed she was absent from class.
Meaning for hours nobody knew where she was.
Nobody checked.
Nobody panicked.
Nobody cared enough to immediately raise alarm.
This is a Form Four student living under school control, not an adult renting her own apartment in Nairobi.
So how does a child disappear from a highly secured boarding school without answers?
Today together with Maina Magret and Amos Koech we went to that school seeking one thing only:
Truth.
But what we found was walls.
The principal refused to face us.
The secretary redirected us like we were beggars asking for favours instead of citizens demanding accountability for a missing child.
Then came the deputy principal Mrs Gitonga in charge of curriculum.
The attitude alone told a story.
Arrogant.
Dismissive.
Defensive.
The kind of behaviour public officials display when they know something is wrong but believe ordinary Kenyans are too powerless to push further.
Simple questions became a problem.
Who last saw Grace?
Which teacher was on duty?
Which gate did she pass?
Was CCTV reviewed?
Were students questioned immediately?
Did she leave alone?
Was she assisted?
Why the delay in informing the parents?
No straight answers.
Only referrals.
Excuses.
Bureaucratic games.
They referred us to the Sub County Education Director over 40 kilometres away as if this is a paperwork issue and not a missing child crisis.
Meanwhile Grace’s parents are dying slowly.
Her father Mr Thini is battling hypertension from stress and emotional torture.
Her mother Eunice Wairimu is surviving on tears, prayers and hope.
Every day they travel from Naivasha near Wanyua Junction searching for answers no parent should ever beg for.
Imagine waking up every morning not knowing whether your daughter is alive, injured, kidnapped or dead.
Then imagine the institution responsible for her safety treating you like an inconvenience.
That is the cruelty this family is facing.
And Kenyans must stop normalising this madness.
A school cannot lose a child then hide behind offices and titles.
This country has become dangerously comfortable with institutional silence.
When poor families cry, powerful offices close ranks.
When children disappear, systems protect reputations first before human life.
That is why this case must not die.
The DCI, Ministry of Education, Child Protection agencies and every security organ in Kenya must move with speed and seriousness.
Because Grace Wangare Thini is not just another name.
She is somebody’s daughter.
And tonight somewhere in Kenya, two parents are staring at a silent phone praying it rings with news that their child is still alive.
A family in Kariobangi South is desperately searching for their two young children who went missing on Wednesday at around 5:00pm.
The boy is 4 years old, while the girl is only 2. They were last seen holding hands near Kwa Chief in Kariobangi South. Their loved ones are pleading with anyone around Kwa Chief, Civo, Buruburu, 56 or nearby areas who may have seen them to report to the nearest police station or contact the family immediately via 0711569605 / 0742829805.
Every share could help bring these little ones back home safely. Please keep an eye out, share widely, and keep the family in your prayers. 🙏
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Amkeni!!! our country has finally gone to the dogs and politicians are showing us the middle finger, what do you means a whole goon is now a
nominated board member of Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital???🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️
The last time I remember Kenyan life being this hard, economically and socially, was in the 90s. I never imagined we'd go through this again in my lifetime. The politics were incoherent as they are now, we were struggling economically, and relationships were suffering in confusion and strange types of conflicts. The only difference between then and now is clarity about where the problem is coming from. In those days, I didn't understand what was happening to us. I thought it was just Africa being Africa. Now I see the political and philosophical problems a little more clearly. The Kenyan state is structurally kaput and needs to be replaced.
"She saved a stranger’s child with $15. Decades later, she discovered why he had been searching for her.
In 1982, a Kenyan boy named Chris Mburu stood on the brink of losing everything. He was the brightest student in his rural district, studying by lamplight inside an earthen house without electricity. But his family could not afford his school fees. Without help, his education would end — along with any chance of escaping a life spent picking coffee in the fields.
Meanwhile, across the world in Sweden, an 80-year-old kindergarten teacher named Hilde Back came across a notice for a child sponsorship program. She chose a name from a list: Chris Mburu, Kenya. She began sending $15 every school term. There was no recognition, no expectation of gratitude — just a quiet decision to help a child she believed she would never meet.
That small amount changed everything.
Chris stayed in school. Over time, he and Hilde exchanged letters. She asked about his teachers, his studies, and his dreams. Through her words, he realized she wasn’t just part of an organization. She was a real person who believed in him. And he never forgot her.
Chris eventually graduated at the top of his law class at the University of Nairobi. He later earned a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard. He went on to become a United Nations human rights lawyer, helping prosecute genocide and crimes against humanity around the world.
Yet one thing always weighed on his heart. He had never properly thanked the woman who made his journey possible. In truth, he barely knew who she was.
In 2001, Chris founded a scholarship program for children like himself — talented students from poor families whose potential might otherwise be lost. He asked the Swedish Ambassador in Kenya to help him locate his mysterious sponsor so he could name the foundation after her.
They found her. Hilde Back. Still alive. Still living quietly in Sweden.
Chris traveled to meet her for the first time. He expected to meet a wealthy philanthropist. Instead, he found a humble, warm woman living simply — genuinely surprised that anyone considered her actions remarkable.
Then filmmaker Jennifer Arnold began documenting their reunion. During her research, she uncovered something Hilde had never told Chris.
Hilde Back had not been born in Sweden. She was born in Nazi Germany in 1922 to a Jewish family. At sixteen, when Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws banned Jewish children from attending school, strangers helped smuggle her to Sweden. Her parents stayed behind because Sweden’s refugee policies did not allow older Jews to enter. Both were later sent to concentration camps. Her father died there. Her mother disappeared, never to be heard from again.
Hilde survived the Holocaust because strangers helped her escape. She lost her own education because of who she was.
Fifty years later, she quietly paid for the education of a child across the world — a child who would grow up to fight the same hatred that destroyed her family.
When Chris learned her story, he wept. Hilde, meanwhile, had no idea that the boy she sponsored had devoted his life to prosecuting genocide.
In 2003, Hilde traveled to Kenya for the inauguration of the Hilde Back Education Fund. The entire village welcomed her as an honorary elder. In 2012, she returned again to celebrate her 90th birthday, surrounded by hundreds of children whose futures had been transformed through her generosity.
Hilde Back passed away on January 13, 2021, at the age of 98.
Today, the Hilde Back Education Fund has supported nearly 1,000 Kenyan children in continuing their education. Many have graduated from universities around the world. Many now give back — mentoring younger students and contributing monthly donations to support the next generation.
One woman. Fifteen dollars. One child.
That child created a foundation. That foundation changed hundreds of lives. And those lives continue to change others.
President Obama retired at 54, Trump got the presidency at 70 and his power peaked at 80. Raila Odinga died at 80 and Col Sanders (KFC) got his breakthrough at 75. Diddy made his millions at age 22, and now sits in prison at 54. Run your own race!
Young people of Kenya, especially my fellow Gen Z, we need to talk , not tomorrow, not next month , now.
We can’t keep discussing change every day if we are not preparing ourselves to participate in that change.
The 2027 elections are around the corner, and the most important tool you can have is a voter’s card. Not tweets, not conversations, not frustrations , a voter’s card. That is the only weapon we, as young people, can use to choose leaders who reflect our dreams, our struggles, and our future.
I speak from experience.
In my recent race in Baringo, I met so many young people who wanted change, who believed in a better county and a better Kenya , but they had no votes.
They supported the message, they supported the vision, but they couldn’t support it at the ballot. And that is painful. Because without your vote, your voice is silent where it matters most.
We can’t claim to want a better Kenya and then be missing on the very day that determines our future.
Gen Z, you are the most powerful generation this country has ever had , educated, connected, bold, and unafraid. But power means nothing if it is not used.
Let’s show up. Let’s register. Let’s vote. Let’s prove that we are not just loud online , we are loud at the ballot too.
2027 is coming.
Don’t watch it pass by.
Get your voter’s card ,your future depends on it.
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Have you seen what has happened in that by election?
Goons ferried from ghettos.
Money being given to voters aimlessly like its being harvested from trees
Police being used to disrupt poling centres so that fake ballot papers can be brought in
Hundreds of pangas being ferried to election areas.
While all this is happening,in the national level,Money is disappearing from government coffers.
Money for hospitals
money for Schools
money for roads
Money for Medicine
Money for HelB
Money for lecturers and Teachers
/- This are the taxes we paid and loans taken on our behalf and which we will pay for.
Insitutions and corporations are being privatized daily.
Anyone telling you to wait for 2027 is clearly Blind or intentionally ignorant.
Waiting for 2027 is giving this Bastads time to strategize and rig.
More money will be poured,more unemployment drug infused youths will be paid and given pangas, more police will be armed teargas and kill citizens,more ballot papers will be ferried to poling sites.
And they will probably hire external militias like their RSF friends. Its so bad
These people clearly dont give a damn about the constitution.
Statehouse must be occupied as early as now.
But,now,we must be strategic!
We must Plan,Mobilize,Organize and strike to reclaim our countrys sovereignty before we are left with nothing but carcasses!
Tuanze na MPs
Pinto, VC JP Morgan says Africa rates are justified.
We can say all we want about cost of capital for African countries but the only way to bring it down is to reduce risk… whether real or perceived.
…rule of law, better governance, reduce corruption, deepen capital markets.
African leaders should know that speeches laced with grievance will not reduce cost of capital.
The President of Singapore once told me he despises three kinds of people…thieves, the corrupt, and those who spend their time benchmarking instead of building. Kila saa Singapore😂😂🚶🏾♀️
Short story from something I read not so long ago.
Around 2012, Sameer as Yana tyres were doing about 4 billion in revenue. Manufactured being over 80% and the rest imported. Then Operation costs, cheaper imports affected market dynamics. These factors pushed revenue lower each year. Ministry officials and KRA cared less. There was robust, brisk business from imports. By 2016, they were closing down NBO and also focusing on importing cheaper tyres from China and India. By this time they were doing about 1.6b which further plummeted to less than 200 mil by 2020.
In 8 years they had gone from a multi billion giant to barely paying salaries. Job cuts were massive. Then they decided to focus on real estate which grew revenue to around 400 mil. When they were manufacturing, their real estate wing was previously classified as supplemental income. Kitambo, that would be their pesa ya chai na mandas. 😂 And even then, they still downsized staff to just property management. Sold about 4 Acres, Cleared a 500 mil facility and posted 250 mil in profit. The highest in 11 years. What I'm saying is, when you see manufacturers closing shop for real estate ventures you will know this country has a policy issue. Think installed capacity, supply and reliability, cost of electricity, haphazard tax policies, directives from Ministries etc. While all these are happening, the taxman is clapping for himself for surpassing collection targets and govt is proud to spend on more lavish items.
We went from Firestone to selling buroti maguta maguta.
Kenya has a policy problem. Not a manufacturing, agroprocessing, industrialization problem.