How activist Caroline Mwatha has been honoured by colleagues

You only live once and as National Lands Commission chair Mohamed Swazuri puts it, the best you can do is leave a strong legacy.

Dandora’s human rights activist Caroline Mwatha whose death report after a weeks disappearance both shocked and puzzled fellow activists and the public has been honoured by her former colleagues at Dandora Community Justice Centre(DCJC)

The organization has drawn a graffiti of the woman on the container that houses their offices.

Her image was drawn next to that of the former President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, who is often described as Africa’s most revolutionary leader.

In a statement, DCJC explained that the graffiti of Mwatha, who was known for standing up against the police, will ensure that her spirit lives on.

“Your legacy remains. You were a voice of reason. The community can attest to that,” the organization stated.

Apart from being the founder member of DCJC, Mwatha also worked as a researcher at the centre until her death.

An autopsy conducted at Umash Funeral Home has rewed that she died of excessive bleeding from her ruptured uterus after a botched abortion.

The late will be burried on February 23 at her husbands home in Siaya.

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