Jocinta Anyango, the mom of Kennedy Onyango, a 12-year-old boy who was killed throughout the 2024 anti-government protests, has spoken out, revealing how President William Ruto made her guarantees that haven’t been fulfilled.
Speaking throughout the interdenominational prayers for victims of the protest on Sunday, June 22, 2025, on the All saints Cathedral, she revealed that Dennis Itumbi, the Head of Presidential Special Projects and Creative Economy, known as her shortly after her son’s demise.
Itumbi, she recounted, instructed her that President Ruto himself wished to talk to her and promised to arrange an in-person assembly.
Jocinta additionally mentioned that the president promised her monetary assist that by no means materialised.
“He instructed me the President would name me for a gathering and promised to make sure justice could be served for my son. He additionally mentioned I’d be supported as a grieving dad or mum,” she mentioned.
In tears, the mom mentioned she has by no means been known as again, and no formal investigation or report has been shared with the household concerning her son’s demise.
“It’s been one full 12 months. Nothing has been carried out. All these guarantees we got, none have been saved,” she added.
Kennedy Onyango’s Mother Pleads With Ruto and Wanga
Jocinta added that she comes from Homa Bay County, but she has remained unnoticed whereas others just like the households of the late MP Ong’ondo Were and the late Albert Ojwang, have been supported.
She added that even with influential ladies leaders like Governor Gladys Wanga and Suba North MP Millie Odhiambo, she feels deserted in her grief.
“I’ve nice ladies leaders from the county, from the Governor Gladys Wanga, MP Millie Odhiambo, but nobody has held my hand by means of this grief.
“Mr. President, when you’ve got any humanity, assist us as mother and father. I do know that my son can not come again, however assist us by means of this grief,” she added.
Kennedy is one among a number of younger individuals who misplaced their lives throughout the 2024 nationwide protests, the place cops used extreme power resulting in the deadly capturing of civilians.
