Maureen Nyaboke became Kenya’s most hated house help after her former employer Wangui Wambeca accused her of killing her son.
According to information from Wangui, she employed Maureen on Tuesday February 22nd and decided to release her the next day on Wednesday for beating her kid.
The kid died on Saturday February 26th to internal bleedings – according to the mother.
“Tuesday,You employ a house manager ,Anachapa mtoto wako. Wednesday you decide to release her.. After medical checkup anapatikana na internal bleeding. Saturday,The kid dies ?..The house manager is still on the run. Appealing to members of the public to help circulate and report the person whose ID is attached here. Name: Maureen Nyaboke. Residence: Nyatieko,Kisii Central. my deepest condolence to Wangui Wambeca , so sad for a parent to lose a child may the lord give you peace girl.” Read the statement.
For the better part of Tuesday morning March 1st, social media has been awash with the news of Maureen Nyaboke killing Wangui Wambeca’s son.
Maureen was ultimately apprehended on Wednesday March 2nd in Kahawa West area.
While many people were baying for Maureen’s blood, many questions also came up. How would a house help employed on the very first day beat a baby to cause his death?
However, some social media user who claimed to be familiar with the issue said that Maureen actually didn’t torture her employer’s baby but the baby fell from the first floor building of the apartment they lived.
Below is what one Bettern Chero Kibet wrote about what she claims really happened:
“WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA DOESN’T SAY
Truth is maid had finished two weeks .
Truth is kid fall from first floor boys being boys (negligence of the maid even if she was washing).
Employer was so a scare to the maid hence maid was unable to speak the truth that the kid fall .
Kid crying all day wasn’t about beating but pain from the fall that later resulted to death
Truth you aren’t ready to speak
Lesson : Be kind to your maid , otherwise this was avoidable death kid was to be rushed to hospital . Fear of maid to employer resulted to death .
Postmortem will exonerate facts from fiction it’s all about blunt force or fall
Rest In Peace champ , may peace prevail .. deepest condolences to the young mum.”
If the baby fell from the building and if indeed Maureen had been employed for two weeks and not a day, why would Wangui Wambeca? Maybe she wanted public sympathy and someone to blame for her baby’s death?
The baby’s death could be as a result of negligence on the part of Maureen and the mother, or it could as well be torture.
There is so many unanswered question about the death of Wangui’s baby. But postmortem result will either convict or exonerate Maureen Nyaboke.
