He added, in reference to the Postulant who died aged 23, “She could have slid and fell into the well. It could be suicide. It could be anything. Nothing has been established yet.”
Emmaus Rongo Catholic Parish is an expansive facility with a church building, the Priests’ rectory, and the compound of the Sacramentine Sisters of Bergamo that has a convent and a school that the Sisters run.
The Sacramentine Sisters, who identify themselves as “women in love with the Eucharist in the footsteps of St Gertrude”, their founder, also engage in the rearing of chicken, rabbits and different other kinds of farming.
On the day that Yvonne went missing, she is said to have informed the others that she was going to feed the chicken.
In the October 28 interview, Fr. Odira tells ACI Africa that when Yvonne did not come back, the other community members were at first not alarmed because “she had not shown any signs of distress.”
Fr. Odira recounts that little attention was paid to the disappearance of Yvonne as many activities were happening in the compound, including preparations for the graduation at the kindergarten.
But later, her community members became worried and decided to look for Yvonne. Not finding her, they are said to have informed their formator who contacted her family.
When the family said they had not seen her, the Sisters reported her as a missing person to the police.
Describing the day that Yvonne’s body was found in the well, Fr. Odira said, “On Sunday after the First Mass, and as the Sisters went back to the convent, one of them decided to uproot some grass around the well to feed rabbits at the convent.”
“It was this Postulant that discovered the body of Yvonne floating. Shocked, she ran to the Superior’s office and told her what she had seen at the well,” he recounted.
