Grieving parents wait for word about their children

Detectives exhume bodies from shallow graves in pastor Paul Mackenzie's piece of land in Shakahola, Kilifi County on April 25, 2023. [Kevin Macharia, Standard]

Scholastica Siria, 67, who hails from Musanda village, Mumias East constituency, has been praying day and night for her four grandchildren whom she claims went missing two weeks together with their mother.

Ms Siria said a neighbour of her son who lives in Kaloleni, Nairobi, confided to her that her daughter-in-law, Maureen Ajayi, travelled with the children to Malindi after the Easter holidays.