Middle-aged Kenyan lady embarks on search for her dad who left when she was 3 years old

Fridah Harriet took to social media to ask anyone with information on the whereabouts of her dad to help her, as her 6-year-old daughter needs to connect with her grandfather. 

Harriet said she has decided to let go and forgive her dad, for she doesn't know why he parted ways with her mother, and that her mother has always said she loved her husband even after he left. 

"Dear dad. I don't know why I woke up today feeling I should reach out for you. Enough of hiding, I am going to repeat this one more time. Despite that I have lived all my life without you ,I have finally grown to be a very forgiving and understanding woman. I honestly would love to believe you had your reasons to do what you did, your misunderstanding between mum and you, i have decided not to be part of it, I have forgiven you," Harriet launched the search. 

She said growing up without her father was not easy, and she doesn't want her daughter to miss the connection with her grandfather. 

"I somehow feel now my daughter, your granddaughter deserves your presence. You have time to make it up, don't show up for me I am all grown now to carry my own cross, so little or actually nothing you can do for me now, but show up for her, she is at the age when you left me in fact little bit older, I understand you left before I could even turn 3yrs, she is 6yrs," Harriet added. 

She said her father's name is Zakayo Kinyua Mbaabu who hails from Kariene area in Nkubu, Meru County.

"I can beat my chest how I want but you are the reason I came to this life. So I can't distance myself from that privilege of being your daughter. I am still proud of you. I have your DNA and you can't cut Fridah and not bleed you.  She is who she is partially because of you. Mum brought us up well, she made sure we can't hate or speak ill of you. I still laugh though why she loved you this much," she said further. 

She begged her dad to forgive her if he feels embarrassed that she took the issue to social media, saying it is the only option she had left as she has tried everything in her power to find him. 

In a subsequent post, Harriet said she has managed to trace her father's step-siblings, but no one knows where he is as they have never seen him since he left home. 

She says the family has decided to reconnect with him, whether dead or alive, and want to close that chapter once and for good. 

Her search for her dad has elicited many reactions from Kenyans online, with a big constituency sympathising with her and spreading the word further.