The body of a Kenyan woman who died a month ago in Lebanon in unclear circumstances finally arrived home in Kisii for burial.
Family members in Kiomiti, Masaba South, said officers from the Kenyan consulate in Beirut contributed funds after a distress appeal for help.
"Yes, the body of my daughter is finally home and we want to thank the media for your help in making public our appeal for financial help," said Vane Kemunto, the mother.
Edna Njoga, 22, died on October 25 in Mt Lebanon, 45 miles from the capital Beirut, after reportedly falling while in the house.
She sustained injuries leading to a temporary hospital stay before she passed on.
She had spent a year as a house servant with a family before the tragic fall.
Last week, the family told reporters they had not been briefed about the circumstances that led to Njoga's death. They want it investigated and action taken.
"Up to now the details are still scanty and we want the government to assist unravel the circumstances that led to the death of my daughter," the mother told journalists in their Kiomiti home.
Njoga, it transpires, was inspired to find a job in Lebanon by her boyfriend.
Kemunto said her daughter secretly left Kenya in November last year during the memorial service for her father at home, never to be seen again until she was brought home in a coffin.
"After that we lost touch with each other. Without communication we kept searching silently about her whereabouts, across the villages, but in vain," she said.
The family, she said, received misleading reports from a friend that Njoga had landed a job in Kisii town and that she would be joining the family with the good news in due course.
"I only learnt that my daughter was no more after the boyfriend's mother called to inform me," she said.
Gesusu MCA Anthony Kerage appealed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help the family find closure by establishing the the truth about how Njoga died in a foreign land.
He said Kenyans in the Middle East were dying in suspicious circumstances as they tried to eke a living abroad.
Edited by Henry Makori
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