The testimony of the St Steven's high school girl who was missing for over three months has raised more questions than answers.
After being allegedly sent packing a day after schools re-opened for outstanding fees balance, the 15-year-old was not heard from until her mysterious return on Wednesday.
Her distraught mother, Mary Mukami, had only learnt that she had been missing a few days ago and was simply overjoyed to see her.
It's unclear how the mother never discovered her daughter was missing for three months yet the schools had closed for the April holiday.
However, when quizzed on what had transpired ever since she left the school, she simply stated that she could neither remember where she was, nor who she had been with.
"All I remember is being in a matatu and asking a woman to pay my fare to Satellite. I took the matatu at Railways Bus Station," she disclosed to The Standard.
She further added that her last memory was sipping some water she had bought at Makutano stage in Machakos County.
When further probed on where she had been, her response was, "Sijui, nilikuwa nazunguka loosely translating to I don't know. I was just roaming around."
Regarding where she had been living, she stated that she spent her days and nights at makeshift market stalls where she survived on chapatis bought from the market and hotels.
She was then asked how she had known that she was declared missing and managed to find her way home and her response was that she saw it on TV while she was moving around.
On her end, Mukami was overjoyed to have her daughter back but was puzzled as to what exactly happened during the three months.
"I gave her Ksh 1,500 as pocket money as well as fare when the school opened. I am not sure she would have survived on that amount for three months," her mother remarked.
The search for the missing girl by KTN journalists at her school went haywire as they were stoned and their vehicle burnt by her schoolmates, leading to the closure of the institution, as well as, the arrest of the school principal for incitement.
