Where is Silvia Romano? This is the question a number of Kenyans have been asking even as security agencies continue to remain silent on her wherebouts.
Silvia was abducted by armed gunment on November, 21 last year but information about her still remain scanty.
The quest into her abduction seem to have hit an ultimate low and it may have even been already stopped by the concerned agencies.
In the midst of all these, information is rife that she might have been a target for the abductors after a business deal went wrong.
In fact, it is being claimed that she might actually be dead and that she may have been killed in a shootout between her abductors and al Shabaab militants over an ivory trafficking deal gone sour.
This theory is becoming popular in Kilifi’s Chakama village where Romano was abducted and Tana Delta where the kidnapping is believed to have been planned.
Villagers and security sources indicated the 23-year-old might have been involved in multi-million shilling ivory trade. They suggested she was abducted after her partners soured on the deal.
Another theory goes that the Italian Government secretly paid ransom and sneaked her back to Europe.
It’s not clear which, if any, theory is true.
Until the truth is finally established, we shall continue to ask the question: Where is Romano?