Family in Kisii calls for government help to repatriate body from Lebanon

A family in Kiomiti, Gesusu in Kisii’s Masaba South Sub-County is seeking government assistance to repatriate the body of their loved one who died in Lebanon a month ago.

Edna Kemunti Njoga died 25th last month from injuries she sustained when she fell off the balcony of the house she was putting up with her host at Mt Lebanon in Lebanon.

The family want the circumstances of the incident investigated.

The deceased’s mother, Vane Kwamboka, said the first report showed she sustained injuries after the fall from the 3rd floor of the house.

A police report sent to the foreign affairs ministry however the young woman, a mother of one, had fallen l from the forth floor of the house.

“Up to now the details are still scanty and we want the government to assist unravel the death of my daughter,” said the mother amid sobs.

During an interview, the mother disclosed she had not known that that her daughter had travelled abroad.

She accused the daughter’s boy friend’s of panning secretly to send off to foreign land without her consent.

She said she had seen her last on November 2021 during the memorial service of the grandfather at home.

“After that we lost touch of each other. Without communication we kept searching silently for across the villages but in vain,” the mother told journalists at her home.

She only learnt about her daughter’s travel abroad when a woman claiming to be her mother Inlaw called in to inform her that her daughter had travelled abroad for a job but fell off the balcony of the house they were staying.

Days later the same woman relayed photos showing the daughter’s as she writh in pain in hospital

“It was heart breaking seeing my daughter in that stage, it pained me more to hear she had died a few days later,” the mother narrated amid

On Friday other family members spoke of desperation in trying to get help from the government to repatriate the body from Lebanon.

” We need help from the government urgently, the money needed is too much which we cannot afford now,” said Gilbert Moruri.

Area Ward Rep Anthony Kerage weighed in to call for investigations into the death.

He said several Kenyans in the middle east are being killed in suspicious circumstances as they go about eking a living.

” As a leader i join the family in asking that the government intervens to help them bring the body home,” he told journalists.