Woman hangs on to hope of finding child

Mary Amatu (left) mother of the missing KDF cadet, Roy Munene, with her daughter Emma Muthoni during the interview with The Standard in Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

As his peers graduated in the passing out parade of cadets at the Kenya Military Academy in Lanet, Nakuru County, last month, Cadet Officer Roy Munene was missing.

His mother Mary Amatu would have wanted to celebrate her son’s graduation on November 30 but instead, she spent the day in a meeting with the officer in charge of the search team tasked with finding the missing officer.