Brenda Chepkirui a second-year nursing student at University of Eastern Africa Baraton (UEAB) met her untimely death on 10th January 2024.
Contrary to reports that have widely circulated online, the incident occurred a few weeks ago, and Brenda has already been laid to rest at her home in Kericho County.
In efforts to fact check what led to the student’s death The Kenya Times found out that the news circulating online that she had been murdered and dismembered were false.
Baraton University Student leader James Wanyonyi confirmed that Brenda was found lying dead in her room.
“The said late student was just found dead in her room 2 weeks ago. She has already been buried, and her head was not chopped off as per the news spreading online. To us, UEAB fraternity, it is all fake news,” noted the student leader.
Brenda Chepkirui was not Beheaded
Also, reports reveal that there was no evidence of violence, sexual assault, or any indication that her passing was the result of criminal activity.
Subsequent postmortem conducted at White Crescent Hospital in Kapsabet revealed that Brenda had succumbed to a natural death.
The absence of foul play or external injuries shed light on the mysterious circumstances surrounding her passing.
Furthermore, the news making rounds online that Brenda’s neck had been being slashed comes amid rise of femicide case in the country.
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Femicide Cases in Kenya
One recent case is that of Rita Waeni, a 20-year-old Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) student who was killed and dismembered in an Airbnb apartment in Nairobi on January 14.
Days before her murder, a popular socialite, Starlet Wahu was also found dead in an Airbnb, bleeding out from a fatal stab wound inflicted by a man she met online.
The media has also reported murders of two other women in the last week. One from Homabay and another woman murdered and dumped by a road in Kiambu County, central Kenya.
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In a bid to address the rising cases of femicide, thousands of Kenyans across the country took to the streets on Saturday, January 27 in nationwide protests calling for an end to femicide.
The protests, which took place in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, as well as in the major cities of Mombasa, Kisumu, Nyeri and Nakuru, saw demonstrators calling for an end to violence against women and girls.
Activists are also demanding that femicide be distinctly recognized as a crime and for perpetrators to receive heavier sentences.
