Thika resident woman tells her story that fish frying has helped raised her five children through thick and thin ever since her husband died in the 2007 post election violence.
Maurine Wangeci, 43 (known by many as Mama Njoro) says that it has not been easy to raise five boys in a family where your only source of income is deep frying fish that sometimes has no profit.
In an exclusive interview, Wangeci told this writer on Sunday evening that her husband was murdered in the 2007 post election violence and ever since her life has never been the same again.
Wangeci said that having a first born child in form four class and the youngest in class one, whom she delivered the month her husband passed on is not an easy task adding that it affected her life and getting married again is the last option in her in her priorities.
She said that her husband Joseph Otieno met his death when he was protecting them against unknown men who raided their homestead to fish him out for allegedly voting for opposition party before taking him to unknown place and killed him.
Wangeci expressed his concerns with the ongoing cases at The Hague where according to her, there is no justice for the poor and the rich will continue ruling the world.
She said that The Hague has not been vigilant enough to prosecute those responsible for the death of her husband.
Wangeci however acknowledged that justice will not return her husband but indeed it would have reduced the pain she has gone through.
She has also pointed fingers at the State for promising to compensate them which according to her they were all fuss and justice will never prevails.
She told the press that she lost her one acre land in Nakuru County, and Thika was the only home she knew and a place where she found refuge with her children.
However she believes that even if all was lost, she still has her five boys whom she works hard for and give her courage and willpower to face each new day.
“The sun will one day rise again” says Mama Njoro.