As sleuths launch important phase of exposing masterminds of DusitD2 terror attack that left 21 people dead, one person, Violet Kemunto, has come out to be a very important figure in the ongoing investigations.
By Wednesday this week, detectives had linked Ms Kemunto, who has since gone missing, to the attack, with preliminary investigations showing that she lived with top suspect, Ali Salim Gichunge, who is believed to have died in the attack.
And as her name suggests, Kemunto's roots can be traced in Gusii region following inves investigations by the Saturday Nation, which established that her mother, who stays in Ruai but she's of Kisii ethnicity. Her father, who was a Kalenjin, is said to have died 14 years ago.
Brought up as a Muslim, Kemunto went to Muslim Girls before joining Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in 2010 where she graduated with a degree in Journalism and PR.
In June 2016, Kemunto travelled to Kisii to visit her relatives. During the visit, she met a couple of friends and relatives with whom she took pictures and posted on various social media platforms.
During that time, the Nation says, she used the name Violet Omwoyo on Facebook. In October 2016, she changed her Facebook name to Didgesupuu Omwoyo and later to Didgesupuu Faruq and disappeared completely.
"She just disappeared. No one knows where she went to. She cut links with the family," one of her sisters revealed.
Violet Kemunto was born to a family of six; four girls and two boys. His brothers are said to be living in the US while the mother is said to have remarried.
At some point, she reportedly worked in an MPESA outlet in Nairobi before cutting links with friends and family in 2016.
Last year, neighbours say, she resurfaced and announced her marriage with Ali Gichunge, who she has living with at Ruaka until the Tuesday's terror attack. On her WhatsApp, she identified herself as Al-Shabaab bride.
A neighbor at Ruaka says she'd announced intentions of selling their households in Ruaka and they were about to a newly finished house at Ruai just before the attack.
"They were selling household items and she even posted on Facebook. They were moving to Ruai at a newly finished house and we were going to have house warming party."
Until now, despite earlier indication that she had been arrested, nobody knows her whereabouts and it's believed that she may have sneaked to Somalia.