Former Machachari star Wanjiku Mburu alias Mama Baha has not lost hope in finding her missing brother who was abducted in Somalia in 2014.
According to the actress, her brother George Mburu and his cousin, only identified as Macharia, left for Mogadishu on January 5, 2014 but were abducted 11 days later.
George went to war-ravaged Somalia to work as an engineer never to be seen again. The family was informed of the kidnapping on January 16th 2014.
Wanjiku Mburu said that her family’s attempts to get assistance from the Kenyan government when they were informed of the kidnapping hit a snag.
She tried in vain to get President Uhuru Kenyatta’s attention in regard to her brother’s abduction.
In an emotional letter to President Uhuru in October 2017, she lamented that the case has grown cold.
“Dear my President…I was told not to write to you, others said I should follow [the] chain of command, which I did and after a few attempts to seek an audience with the relevant people we had our 1st meeting and everyone was happy to see ‘us’.
“Well that’s until we told them why we were really there and no sooner did they hear us, there were promises of immediate action…there was “call me 1st thing in the morning…” which I did and this was the narrative…in hushed tones, I was told…“I am in a meeting I’ll call you later…” this went on for a while until they no longer bothered to pick my calls…
“See Mr President my brother was kidnapped and it’s now 3 years since and nothing from you or your office…after everything has been said and done, it’s been said and nothing done.
“So this is me hoping with everything going on, your re-election, Githeri man rising to fame, you will get to read this and bring my brother home…3 years, I think he has done his “time”,” wrote Wanjiku Mburu.
In 2019, the popular actress announced that she would walk to President Uhuru’s office on January 28th in protest over the government’s inaction over her brother’s disappearance in Mogadishu.
“On the 28th of January is my birthday and on this Day I walk for my brother Georgie. Please walk with me, together we will walk far,” Wanjiku Mburu wrote in part.
Fast forward to February 2022, Wanjiku Mburu is working on a film titled ‘Mipaka’ to share the story of her missing brother George.
“For the past four years, I have been working on a movie that will go into a series and it’s the story of my brother. It is called ‘Mipaka’, the feature film and ‘Mipaka’ the series,” Wanjiku Mburu said during an interview with Word Is.
“We are still in pre-production, trying to sum up the script, getting actors onboard and other actors, locations and all,” she added.
Wanjiku said she hopes to encourage other families going through the same like her family with her upcoming movie and series.
