A Form four candidate who was reported missing a month ago has not been traced.
Her family in Eldoret is living in distraught after efforts to trace their daughter who went missing while on her way home from school for the mid-term break but never got home bore no fruit.
Mercy Chepkosgei, a Form Four candidate at Mokwo Girls High School in Kaptagat, Eldoret, has been missing for the past four weeks with effort to trace her whereabouts bearing no fruits.
Speaking to media, Mercy’s father, Paul Kurgat, said they had reported her disappearance at three different police station; Kaptagat, Kapsoya and Eldoret but they never helped.
“The school principal is not helping us, her phone is now off and the police keep taking us back and forth,” said the distraught father.
After weeks of searching, there was a ray of hope after a fellow student claimed she knew where the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidate could be.
This was after another student from the same class, Monicah Nyambura, also went missing on March 5, after she was sent home by the school administration to collect her school fees arrears.
“She reported back to school on Tuesday, March 5, with the fees balance but she was sent back home because the money was not enough. She was sent away again at 5pm against the ministry regulations,” said a Twitter user.
Families of the two students joined forces to look for their daughters while involving education officials from Eldoret with new information that they could be looked up in a five bedroom house.
” Their friend who is also their classmate said there was a possibility they were locked up in a five bedroom house in Eldoret’s Pipeline estate house number four and that if we found one of them we would find the other,” said the father.
This hope was, however, shattered after police from Kaptagat station claimed their vehicles needed to be fueled and the school detained the student from joining them to aid with directions.
” We went to Kaptagat police station but they told us their vehicles were not fueled so we gave them KSh 2,000 but they claimed it was already late we come back on Thursday, March 14,” he added.
In the midst of the push and pull with the police, the second missing student, Nyambura, is said to have returned to their home in Ruiru, Nairobi on her own but was too traumatised to speak.
Mercy’s father is now looking for his daughter with the hope that the little information he has will help trace his daughter despite the school and police refusing to help him.
“I am now randomly walking in Pipeline estate hoping I will find the house where my daughter is because the police are not helping me,” the disappointed father said.