Rachel Muthiga, the mother to two of the eight students who perished in a grisly road accident along the Kisii-Kilgoris road is torn apart by her loss. She is yet to come to terms with losing two of her children, Vinnah Morangi, 21, and Valeria Wangare, 20.
Speaking to the Standard newspaper, a tearful Ms. Muthiga appeared to take blame for her daughters death. The single mother narrated how her daughters would still be alive if she had allowed them to attend their cousin’s burial in Meru.
“I have lost two flowers that had begun to flourish. This is the most painful thing to happen to any parent. I have single-handedly struggled to educate them since their father died in 2001. They have schooled together in primary, secondary and now in university,” she told the Standard.
Apparently, the two girls were close with their late cousin, and the family arranging her funeral felt that it would not have been easy to control them. To divert their emotions, they advised them to remain in school.
The two sisters schooled at Nyabururu Boarding Primary before joining Nyabururu National School for their secondary education. They later moved to St Michael Girls in Kisii where they sat their KCSE in 2014 and 2015. Murangi, who was the eldest, joined Kenyatta University to study Education Arts and she was in third year. Wangare was to join the same university to pursue journalism but had been staying with her sister in the private hostels in Nairobi.
