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Slain Ivy Wangeci s mother Winfred Kingori before Eldoret High court on July 8, 2021.[Christopher Kipsang,Standard]
The hearing of the murder case against Naftali Njami Kinuthia, accused of killing Moi University medical student, Ivy Wangeci in cold blood on April 9, 2019, has finally kicked off, after five failed attempts.
Five witnesses including Wangeci’s mother and a classmate testified before Eldoret High Court Judge, Stephen Githinji on Thursday.
An emotional mother, Winfred Waithera told the court that her firstborn daughter in a family of three, was a hard-working, focused and self-driven girl, who was in her sixth and last year of medical school.
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Triza Wangari’s transplanted kidney failed in 2015. [Courtesy]
Triza Wangari from Kiambu County was diagnosed with stage five kidney failure, which is irreversible, in 2009. She had just completed secondary school when fatigue, diarrhoea and anaemia became the order of the day.
To date, she has battled the chronic kidney disease. “When you have kidney failure you lose your urine, you don’t pee,” she says. After the transplant, she started to pass urine. “My life and weight came back to normal. I had also lost my memory through a stroke,” she says.
The diagnosis was followed by dialysis, but her family thought a kidney transplant was a better option. She did the transplant in India in 2011. “My sister donated the kidney. Life was very good when I did transplant because I got my peeing back.”