Senator Malala (left) when he weighed over 100 kilograms. [File, Standard]
It took Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala jetlag following an 18-hour direct flight to the US to come to terms with his weight issues.
With severe back pain, away in a foreign land, and unable to buy painkillers over the counter, he had to go to the hospital.
That is when reality hit him.
After all the tests were done, the verdict was terse; he needed to start a new journey, not back to his motherland but to claim back his health status. Of them accumulated from his waist up.
“The experts told me that I was straining my spinal code, the 93kg from the waist up was like carrying a bag of maize,” he laughs.