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 A family in Mbaruk, Nakuru County is in distress after their 16-year-old son, a student at Echariria Secondary School, disappeared five weeks ago. 

Miriam Nyanjiru said her son, Arthur Maina, went missing after he was sent home from school for allegedly writing a love letter to a girl also in the same school. 

She said she was not aware her son, a day-scholar, had been sent home with instructions to come with a parent.  

Speaking to People Daily  early this week, the mother of four tearfully narrated the pain they have been going through since the student went missing on October 2. 

“I can’t even sleep because my life has been turned upside down,” she said.

When the boy failed to turn up in the evening, she visited the school the following day to inquire about his whereabouts, only to be told that he had been sent home the previous day.

“When I went to school to find out what had happened, I was shown the letter,” said Nyanjiru. 

She said her son may have decided to run away, fearing his mother’s reaction, especially because she had warned him against inappropriate relationships a few days earlier. 

She describes her son as a reserved boy who easily gets upset.

Nyanjiru faulted the school for sending his son away for such a minor issue. 

“Students write letters to each other.  We did it even during our time,” she said.