She went to seek better opportunities abroad but has now come back in a coffin.
With all dreams shattered by death, the body of a 22-year-old girl who died under mysterious circumstances while working as a house help in Saudi Arabia finally arrived in Kenya on Tuesday morning.
Family members confirmed that the late Ms Celina Kazungu’s body arrived at JKIA in Nairobi and is expected in Malindi by 6 pm the same day.
Fred Kazungu a relative of the deceased confirmed that the body arrived today morning at 6 am.
In a telephone interview with Uzalendo News, said the body will be received by family members at the Malindi international airport and then proceed to Star hospital mortuary.
“There will be a lot of people at the airport waiting, the same at the mortuary and more saw at home,” He Said.
The family has been mourning since March 8 when they learnt that their kin had died under unclear circumstances.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that the girl who has been working in the Middle East since July last year was stabbed and died while undergoing treatment at a Saudi Arabian hospital.
Earlier family members and relatives’ efforts to get help so as to bring the body back home had borne no fruits and had been left to mourn their kin not sure whether the body will be brought home.
Journalists visited the home and found the family in a sombre mood with the mother who only speaks the local Giriama dialect demanding her daughter’s body back home for burial.
The mother Dzendere Randu broke down into tears upon thinking about her daughter who died thousands of miles away and is not sure of seeing her body.
She said in Giriama that what she wanted was to see the body of her daughter home because its long since she left home alive but now, she was no more.
“What I want is the body of my daughter nothing else help me bring the body back home,” she said.
The family now will organize for a decent send-off for their kin as per the traditions.
In the earlier interview, the Deceased’s elder brother Owen Kazungu was close to his late sister and is well versed with all the process that went on until she travelled to Saudi Arabia to look for greener pastures after failing to go to high school due to financial constraints at home.
Kazungu said he tried reaching out to her sister on phone on March 8 as it was usual for him to communicate with her but her phone went unanswered.
In an interview at their home, he said attempts to get information about her whereabouts from friends who are also in the middle east proved futile as they also could not reach her on phone.
He said they went to the Human Rights office in Kilifi who later informed them that her sister was in high school after making follow up
“On March 10 I got the information she was in ICU in critical condition, we tried to inquire whether she could come home for treatment but we were told that she could not travel in the state she was in until she got better,” he said.
Kazungu said on March 17 the family got information that she was dead and efforts to get the body back has been difficult as each time they are given dates.
Documents seen by journalists indicated that the deceased signed a Domestic Service Worker contract with a Saudia Arabian Employer called Manaal Muidh Rasheed Alanazi of ID number 1012007447.
Ismail Mweni an uncle of the deceased said they just got a phone call that Celina was in ICU followed by another call that she was dead.
