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It is around noon, and Rhoda Wanyama sits pensively alongside her sisters, their gazes fixed on the charred ruins of what was once their late mother’s home in Siaka village, Kanduyi Constituency, Bungoma County.
Nearby workers prepare to erect a temporary structure where their house once stood.
For Rhoda, this site carries a deep and painful history: fifteen years ago, using her very first salary while working abroad, she built a modern house for her mother, Josephine Musundi Wanyama.
What was meant to be a lasting appreciation of filial gratitude was reduced to ashes under mysterious circumstances on May 11, 2026 exactly three years, after her mother passed away.
