‘Security Agencies Have Failed’ Karen Nyamu Demands Action Over Missing Children

Senator Karen Nyamu has issued a statement on the alarming disappearance of young children across Kenya, calling out security agencies for what she termed a systemic failure to protect the country’s most vulnerable populations.

Speaking from Korogocho, Senator Nyamu said that security agencies have failed Kenyan parents and children. “Our security agencies have failed the children of this country,” Nyamu stated.

The Senator spoke on a disturbing trend: the unexplained disappearance of children between the ages of five and eleven. “Something else that has been happening is our small children, five years to 11 years, are missing at an alarming rate a rate which we don’t understand. Who is killing them? And where have they gone?” she asked.

Nyamu claimed that between 18 and 24 children are reported lost every day across the country. She noted that some of these children are later found abused or killed, yet there appears to be no coordinated investigation into the root of the crisis. “How can there be a report that 18 to 24 children are lost every day, others found abused and killed, and still there is no investigation to say where the children are going?” Nyamu demanded.

The Senator issued a warning to security agencies, urging them to take immediate action before the situation escalates beyond state control. “We want our security agencies to take decisive action. If it is not like that, parents will take the law into their own hands,” she cautioned. She concluded with a challenge to law enforcement: “How many kids should go missing for us to get a report and investigation?“