Mrs Violet Kemunto, the woman adversely mentioned in DusitD2 terror attack, was a queit but friendly person, her former classmates have established.
According to the Nation, Kemunto completed her Journalism and PR studies from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in 2015 after which she got a job at a small outlet in Nairobi.
In Kakamega, a friend revealed, Violet always wore hijab but nobody suspected that she was a Muslim due to her names. At campus, Kemunto is said to have been moving out with a classmate whom she intended to marry.
"She was quiet most of the time and friendly to everyone she interacted with. She spoke only when taking part in class or group discussions and didn’t take alcohol or smoke."
She had a boyfriend who studied the same course and they hang out together most of the time until she graduated.Then she dumped him. “They were so close and planned to wed, but somehow things did not work out,” a friend said.
After that, she disappeared from the social scene. Friends didn’t hear from her again until she organised a wedding last year.Neighbours at the Guango Estate home in Kiambu she shared with Gichunge described her as a quiet woman who liked to smile, but seldom spoke.
She was always wearing a niqab — a veil worn by some Muslim women in public, covering all of the face apart from the eyes — and seldom stepped out of the house unless in the company of Gichunge.
On her WhatsApp, she describes herself as an Al-Shabaab bride. A few weeks ago, she posted on one of Facebook pages about her intentions to sell households because she 'was relocating from Nairobi'.
Initial reports indicated that she had been arrested from her boyfriend, Ali Salim Gichunge's house at Ruaka but some sources claim that she may have disappeared to Somalia.