Kenya s social drinkers may actually be alcoholics
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Catherine Boyane Oloo Aringo opened her eyes one morning in 2013 to her daughter shaking her awake in a ditch in the sprawling Manyani slum in Nakuru.
Jaw bleeding from a previous night’s fight, it was in this wretched and unlikeliest of places that she set forth on a new journey. She knew she had to turn her back on the alcoholism that had plagued her life for 28 years.
Born in a dysfunctional family, and egged on by peer pressure, Catherine, who is now 52, started abusing drugs when she was only 13.
“Fighting between my mother and father sent me to seek love among my peers who introduced me to drinking,” she says.
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Slain Ivy Wangeci s mother Winfred Kingori before Eldoret High court on July 8, 2021.[Christopher Kipsang,Standard]
The hearing of the murder case against Naftali Njami Kinuthia, accused of killing Moi University medical student, Ivy Wangeci in cold blood on April 9, 2019, has finally kicked off, after five failed attempts.
Five witnesses including Wangeci’s mother and a classmate testified before Eldoret High Court Judge, Stephen Githinji on Thursday.
An emotional mother, Winfred Waithera told the court that her firstborn daughter in a family of three, was a hard-working, focused and self-driven girl, who was in her sixth and last year of medical school.
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