A Form-three student, who mysteriously disappeared from her grandparents home in Siaya nine days ago, has left the family distraught, with the grandmother calling for assistance to track her.
Mary Violet Otieno, a Form-three student at Nyamonye Girls High School in Bondo Sub County reportedly disappeared from her grandmother’s home on 14th October after she was sent to deliver milk to a neighbour.
According to her grandmother, Christine Ayoro, she had earlier accompanied the girl to Nyamonye Girls School to seek clearance to enable her to join a school in Nairobi where she was to be transferred to, but they were not attended to allegedly because the girl was not in school uniform.
“We had been called a few days earlier that my granddaughter was sick and required medical attention,” said the grandmother adding, “we took her home to Nairobi, where her parents live, for medication but she later refused to go back to the school, insisting that we transfer her to another institution.”
Mrs Ayoro said that a school had been identified and they went back toNyamonye for clearance when the girl was told to go back in uniform.
The girl had travelled from Nairobi to her grandmother’s home in Siaya, who was to take her to school to seek for clearance.
She had however left her uniform in Nairobi.“I called the parents to inform them of the school decision and she stayed with me to wait for the parents to send the uniform via courier. But the girl disappeared when I sent her to deliver milk to a neighbour,” said the distraught grandma.
She said that the day she disappeared, the student switched off her mobile phone, only to switch it on at around 5 am the following day before switching it off again.
The grandmother said that the last communication with the student was when she called her cousin asking for some money while claiming that she was at a bus company booking office in Siaya.
“The cousin told her that she had left the money with me and she should come for it but that was the last time we heard about her and her phone has since been switched off,” said Mrs Ayoro.
Mrs Ayoro, who reported the matter to Siaya police station, vide OB number48/15/10/2021 is appealing to anybody with information on the whereabouts of the student to contact her on telephone no. 0707190203 or report to the nearest police station.
“Alternatively, they can reach me at Siaya town’s Kamufwas estate opposite Maya Prison and ask for Jakomenya,” she said while equally appealing to the girl to go back home as the family members had no issue with her.
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