Endarasha School Fire: Mother Still Searching for Son as Agony Grows.
Six days after a fire at Endarasha Hillside Academy claimed the lives of twenty-one boys, Angeline Wambui, the mother of 11-year-old Robinson Theri, a Grade 6 student, is in distress. Wambui does not know where her son disappeared.
One of Wambui’s son’s classmates’ testimony offers her only hope. The classmate reassured her constantly that Theuri and he were rescued together. His mother then picked up the classmate from one of the classes at school.
Wambui, despite her occasional smiles, is in pain. Though the government claims all students have been accounted for, she visited multiple hospitals in Nyeri County on Tuesday in search of any indications of her son.
Confusion and searching efforts
“The mother of my son’s classmate lives around the school, so she went to pick him up. She didn’t know where my son was since the pupils were instructed to wait for their parents in different classrooms.”
Wambui has also submitted herself for DNA testing, travelling from Mombasa, where she lives. Wambui worries her son might be among the 19 children awaiting autopsy whose bodies are now at the Naromoru Level IV morgue.
She expressed her disbelief, asserting that she had received assurances of her child’s rescue, making it challenging to accept his possible inclusion among the deceased.
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Holding onto hope, Wambui keeps on the testimony of the classmate despite the daunting conditions since the boys knew each other. Since the event, she has not seen or heard from her son; she is waiting impatiently for the DNA test findings.
Six days have passed since the tragic event, and Wambui suffers. She keeps hoping for her son’s return and clings to the notion that her darkest fears won’t happen.
Endarasha School Fire: Mother Still Searching for Son as Agony Grows.
