"I have not eaten for three days," widower speaks out

Sep 01, 2019

“It's been traumatising. I have spent three days without eating or drinking since I learnt of my wife's kidnap.

CRIME        EULOGY

Maria Nagirinya, a social worker who was murdered has been eulogised  by her husband Edgar Gateni.

"It's been traumatising. I have spent three days without eating or drinking since I learnt of my wife's kidnap. Maria was my friend and friend to her dad. May God strengthen her dad and i. Part of me has been robbed. Our dreams have been robbed," Gateni said. 

He said he had spent 12 years with Maria. "We became friends in Primary Three, Maria was my briefcase, and she used to listen to me and loved me with one heart."

Gateni recalled how he had sent messages to Maria about what kind of beds they would buy after the construction of their home. He says they had just purchased a plot on 24 August, their first wedding anniversary.

"Little did I know that she would not see those messages as she was already ‘asleep', I thought she would see them in the morning but she had already been murdered"

He said he had never fainted but since the ordeal, he had fainted several times.

"I don't know who did this. I have asked God why me?"

He wondered why his wife had to die in the same month they were to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

"Before her death, she was sending signs... I would ask her to get online but she would be a bit busy, I always asked her to move with someone in the night whenever she was moving alone," he said.

Gateni said the dreams he had with his wife have been shattered. "Part of me is gone. I'm pretending to be strong but I'm broken inside. We haven't even left a child for our people"

"I have come here to say goodbye knowing that God who brought you in my life…. I will never replace you Maria.''

 

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