Candidate finds out her entire family died a month after her exams

Piece by: Peninah Njoki
Lifestyle

As fouth form candidate Anna Zambi had nothing to celebrate about as she lost her entire family.

The young girl from Tanzania, only learnt a month later that her entire family had died and that her extended family had hidden the truth from her.

Anna was waiting for her parents and siblings to visit her in school for prayer day ahead of her secondary school examinations.

She was shown the graves of her parents: Lingiston Zambi, Winifrida Lymo and three siblings: Lulu, Grace and Andrew.

Ibrahim Zambi the family's spokesman said they received news of the death on October 28

'I was in the office around 11am when I received the news.

The accident happened between the 25th and 26th but we only learnt of it on the 28th.

We were just reading the news on social media before receiving the news officially from the government.

But since then the government has been very supportive.'