Jacinter Anyango the mother of 12-year-old Kennedy Onyango who was shot in Rongai last June during anti-Finance Bill protests now blames a State Operative for not coming through with the assistance he promised.
During a special multi denominational church service held at the All Saints Cathedral, Jacinta Anyango said that Dennis Itumbi called her at the height of the protests and promised that she would get closure with justice being mete to those who cut short the life of her child.
“Dennis Itumbi called me and told me the matter would be followed up and I would get justice — but still, nothing.”
Jacinta said young Kennedy who was an artist had been working on a painting of a mosque the day he was mowed down under a hail of bullets by police officers.
“Even as you go to pray, please pray for me. I have two other children with sickle cell anaemia. I am really struggling with life because that boy was my everything,” Jacinta said, adding “On the day he was killed, Kennedy told me he was finishing up a drawing of a mosque, which he hoped would help pay our rent for the month.”
Following his death the parents were engaged in a bitter burial saga. with Denish Okinyi, the father making efforts to have his son buried in Kisaku Village, Suba, in Homa Bay County.
Okinyi is a resident of Usonga in Siaya County who migrated to South Nyanza. But the mother who claimed neglect from her husband insisted that the boy be buried in Kamasengere village in Rusinga island, at her parents’ home.
Mbita Principal Magistrate Martha Agutu directed that Kennedy’s body be taken to Kamasengre Village in Rusinga for burial.
The ruling was contested by Denish Okinyi and his clansmen who demonstrated outside the Homabay Law Courts forcing police to disperse the crowds using teargas.
Today’s prayer meeting was graced by prominent opposition figureheads, including Wiper Party leader Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, former Chief Justice David Maraga, and DAP-K Party Leader Eugene Wamalwa.
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