At 11 PM in Pipeline, Nairobi, 20-year-old University of Nairobi student Mercy Kwamboka received an ordinary phone call. She stepped outside to answer, unaware it would lead to an unimaginable nightmare.
The second-year Chemistry student at the University of Nairobi, never returned home.
Her lifeless body was discovered hours later in Mwiki, far from where she had been.
A passerby found her lying on the ground, barely clinging to life. She was covered by a blanket, wearing only her undergarments.
Beside her were her mobile phone and KSh 1,000. She struggled to stand, but her injuries were too severe.
The eyewitness, who came upon her body, recalls the horror. “She was trying to crawl, but it was clear something terrible had happened to her,” he said.
He believes she was brought to the area by a vehicle and left there to die. The scene was chilling. The car had come, dropped her off, and left.
Mercy Kerubo: Mother Details Daughter’s Brutal Murder
Mercy’s mother, Stella Kerubo, is shattered. She painfully described the condition in which she found her daughter who was battling epilepsy.
Her leg was broken, “like a sugarcane,” as she put it. Her hands had been doused with acid. Mercy had endured unimaginable torture before her death.
The presence of her phone and money has raised questions. Why wasn’t she robbed? It’s clear her captors were not after material possessions. Instead, they seemed intent on taking her life in the most brutal way possible.
The phone call that lured her out of her home remains a key focus for investigators. Police are examining her phone records, hoping to uncover who called her that fateful night. They want to know why someone would target Mercy, a young woman with her whole future ahead of her.
Her disappearance has shocked not only her family but also her university community. Students at Chiromo Campus, where she studied, are left wondering how such violence could happen to one of their own.
Mercy’s mother is left with one question: “How could someone do this to her?” She and her family are now demanding justice for their daughter, whose life was tragically cut short at 20.
By Vivian K.