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During the government’s intense campaigns to convince people to go and register for their Huduma Nambas, the Huduma card was hailed as the magic bullet that was going to solve everything. Jokes were coined and memes were created to this end, turning the entire sensitisation exercise by the government into a joke.
However, as things are now turning out, the controversial card may just happen to be all that it has been trumped up to be, if the events that just took place in Kitui County are anything to go by.
Kamene Katunduma is a woman who feels like she has just been given a new lease of life following an incident that unfolded in her home village of Ivuusya.
Benjamin Malii Ilivu left their home in Ivuusya village, Mwingi Central, to work at the Kindaruma Dam in 1974 but never returned.
Before that, he worked briefly in Mombasa from where he occasionally visited his home village. He was at the prime of his youth at the time, his younger sister Kamene Katunduma says.
When he left for Kindaruma, Kamene went with him. They both stayed there until sometime in July 1974 when Kamene returned home. Benjamin saw her sister off.
“We agreed he was to come home in August that same year,” Kamene says.
That did not happen. She and other family members have not set eyes on Benjamin since then.
When his workmates from the village returned during holidays, the family asked if they knew the whereabouts of their son. Nobody knew.
“I keep praying to God to bring him back,” Kamene said during an interview at their home in Nguni ward of Kitui county.
Kamene, now 70 years old, said she still hopes her elder brother would return home, close to five decades after they last saw each other.
Those hopes have been renewed by Benjamin’s Huduma card, which was delivered at home by the area chief.
Kamene now believes her long lost brother is still alive, and hopes she’ll see him again soo
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