Accident
Reduced Me to A Street Beggar, 23 Year Old Says
By Kim
Richek
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| Moses who always seat near Standard Chatered Bank in Kericho has a story to tell Have you ever spent your two minutes to say Hi to a beggar seated along the streets or beside the road?The Famous South rift today talked to Moses Mwangi a young and handsome looking youth who begs for coins along Kericho-Nakuru Highway beside Standard Charted Bank in Kericho town. |
With tears dropping down his cheeks
appreciates our time to chat after we dropped some little money to bring his
attention.
Mwangi
whose disability is on waist and legs says he was well until when he was six.
The
disability was caused by accident that inloved a truck and a matatu he was
using with his parents from Nakuru bound to Thika.
The
truck rammed our car along the current Thika Super Highway killing both of his
parents instantly.
Luckily,
only the Matatu driver and him survived the fatal accident though his life took
another direction as he was hospitalized for several years due to waist dislocation
and chopping off of his legs.
“I was young and did not know anything but a
well-wisher who was our neighbor in Nakuru told me the whole story after taking
care of me for several years” he said.
The
well-wisher who was employed by a Tanzanian business lady to sell “Kitenges” was
transferred to Tanzania when he was a form-one student at Nakuru High.
His
education life was came to an end and he chose to plead for help in streets of
Nakuru to get food and a times shelter when the donations he beg in streets
were enough to rent a house.
He
says his elder brother left him and got indulged in drug abuse after the demise his both parents and even up to now he do not know of his whereabouts.
“I
have been here in Kericho for one year and I always rent a room near “Mulembe”
but I am not comfortable as prostitutes are many there and disturb me a lot.
Should I get a well-wisher to help me get a house, I will appreciate and my
life will start there” he said.
He
says he is a skillful cobbler but he needs equipment and trouble free from
county government tax collectors premise to enable him get money from his
sweat.
“
I am not happy to beg in streets, I thank God that my waist has recovered and I
can now do some work, I therefore need help to get trouble-free premise where I
can start life” he said.
His
home was in Langalanga Location and he says the area Chief refused to help him
get identification certificate and get registered with Councils of
disabilities.
“Nobody
has introduced me to any of the Disabilities organization but should I get one
I will appreciate” he added.
Answering
our question says he has no future plan but hopes that gracious God will someday
sympathize with him to get a sustainable income and bright future equally to
other successful men.
Mwangi
is found near the bank from Monday to Saturday but on Sunday he goes to Repentance
and Holiness Ministry Altar near KCC to thank God for the the good he as seen.
He
believes that God has good plans for his future life and that is why he spared
him from the early death.
“Though
I am undergoing hard moments towing up and don’t the streets using my two
harms, I hope for a better blessing from God who spared me from death when I was
young” he said.
On
National issues he was sad of ethnicity in the country saying it has deprived
him support from locals in the region because he is a Kikuyu. He pleads with
the County Government to get equipment for the disables and support to start
his business.
The
Form-one drop-out said he was sad to note that there are healthy students who
have got opportunities to study in secondary schools but were torching schools
instead of utilizing the chance and asked them to prudently use the God-given
chance.
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