Afronbladet 22nd Sept 2011
The flowers and candles made the father of the dead four year old to cry. With him were the suspected mother’s and the boys’ close friend, Sophia Njoroge.
“If all this love had been shown before, this would never have happened”, she said.
On the jetty at Munkholmen where the bodies of the two boys’ were found on Monday are two little blue Smurfs holding hands, a yellow football with endorsed greetings, drawings, teddy bears and burning candles.
The father of the four-year old boy participated in the night search for the boys between Sunday and Monday. Both he and the 30-year-old mother’s close friend Sophia Njoroge looked out to the water and cried.
“I wanted to come here to see the place again, to see that we were at the right place. I was here on Sunday and lifted the boats while searching, said his father”.
“Tried to call”
He admitted that the contact between him, the mother and son had previously worked fine. But recently, it had worsened.
He did not understand how bad the situation was for the mother to survive without an income. The electricity had been switched off in the apartment and the mother had isolated herself with his sons, – until it was too late.
But the father reacted when staff rang last week and wondered why his son did not come to the preschool.
“I tried calling her but she did not answer. I went to their hom last Saturday, but no one opened when I knocked”.
Hid her face
He believes that the municipality of Sigtuna has failed in its handling of the case. He asks why the social services did not do more to save the children, why no one responded earlier and took more action when the boys did not show up in school or preschool.
“It’s their fault”.
Sophia Njoroge’s eyes reddened and she hid her face in her hands.
“It’s hard to understand all that are now showing their love with all the candles and flowers. If they had shown the caring and love before, this would have never happened”.
Memorial service
Even Sophia Njoroge wants to ask the Social Services a lot of questions.
“How can a single mother with two small children be left to live without electricity in Sweden today? They ought never to turn off the electricity of someone who has children. And when I called them, they just asked why I called”, said Sophia Njoroge.
Eva Hamberg, the social security boss in Sigtuna Municipality, announced yesterday that the municipality has failed in some routines, but they now will conduct a review of the case.
On Saturday there will be a memorial service in Sätunakyrkan in Märsta for the dead boys. Afterwards, a ceremony to honor the departed boys will be held on the waterfront of Munkholmen.
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This so called”father” where was he? a father should know what his kids are doing all time?? to be a father is a 24/7 work/responsibility…………..”he says its wellfares fault” how? and why not you fault?? was this a child of wellfare or your child??
According to me “you should never call yourself a father” YOU ARE A SPERM DONATER! not a father!! to be called a father means,to be there emotionally/pysically…..stop blaming social…you should be jailed together with her,…you are guilty as she is.
There are so many spermdonars on loose. if you hade been there as a caring,responsible,loving dad to Elias,he would be alive today and maybe you hade saved the other one in the process??!!
mtoto wa nyumbani
Rest In Peace Elias and Tevin!! we dearly miss you handsome boys! May peace be with you and hope that you didnt suffer much the last minutes of your life! couldnt your mum hear your cry and just resque you instead of finish you!
about Sophia and the dad to the 4 yr old what did you do to inform the kenya stockholm community about the situation with this woman?
when you knocked on her door and no one answered did you contact the police or anybody?
and you the dad we understand you knew the economical situation why didnt you talk to the social yourself? I think you are mistaking us especially when we lay flowers and light the candles coz on my behalf i thought this lady has cooled down from her scandles as she is well known within the kenyans in stockholm.Her pride has driven her this far to even kill her own children! a big lesson to us all! This woman came to you Sophia and the dad and she explained the whole situation but because you wanted to hide her problem you didnt want the third party which is kenya stockholm peolpe to know it! To me the dad is not supposed to point the finger to the municipality coz you should have heard the cry and saved your son! we understand you have another child with another kenyan lady whom you see once in a blue moon! We shall continue to show our solidality as long as we know that we were not informed the problem going on in this family! i believe kenyans in stockholm would have contributed to save this kids coz we believe umoja ni nguvu! I blame you most you two who knew the whole history and kept it to yourselves! remember PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL! ! R.I.P Elias and Tevin! you really didnt deserve this!
i agree with you you mtoto wa nyumbani.the father lives in stockholm which makes it worse..a father should check on his children atleast two or three times a week if he ever had for his children and when her economic situation was bad why didnt the father take the kids to help?hes the one to blame