09/07/2025
It has taken me a whole day to process this.
This is 12 years old Brigid. Brigid was a grade 7 pupil at Benson Njau Primary School in Kiambu.
Brigid was not participating in Saba Saba demos. She was not even interested in watching who was demonstrating where. After all her home area has never had Maandamano in the past. She had was just minding her business.
At about 6.40pm last evening, Brigid who is a first born child was seated in their sitting room together with her mother and little sibling. Their father was outside feeding their chicken.
Mama Brigid heard something make a loud sound like an explosion. It's at that time she spotted blood on Brigid's hand. She stretched her hands on this particular hand to check where the blood had come from.
It's at this point Brigid fell down. She had a huge hole in her head. Upon seeing this Mama Brigid screamed. It was so loud that Baba Brigid came running.
They rushed to a neighbour to help with his vehicle. Upon getting to hospital they were told she had a bullet stuck in her head. A few minutes later closed her eyes for good.
She was gone forever to a land of no return.
A stray bullet found her in a place she was comfortable like any child. A stray bullet from someone's parent. Someone seated somewhere right now happy with his day's actions. A place her parents thought would be the most comfortable and most safe.
But now Brigid is freezing in a morgue.
Her primary school was too shocked to recover. None of the learners made it to school today. Not even the teachers. The shock is still real. The pain is too much to bear.
Dear God ..... 😭 😢 😭
