Former citizen TV reporter Kimani Mbugua has been making headlines after posting a cryptic message on Twitter.
Kimani through his official Twitter account called out his parents for abandoning him at Mathare hospital despite his being discharged. He termed their actions as malicious seeing that he was discharged after a week of treatment.
I appeal to all people who know me to kindly appeal to my parents to let me out of Mathare Hospital. I came here after a brief psychotic episode on the 4th of August and was discharged on the 10th of the same month. My parents have left me here to punish me,” Kimani wrote on his Twitter page.
Netizens were left shocked with some demanding to know why the parents would leave him. While others were not even aware that he was struggling with his mental health.
Kimani’s Mother responds
Speaking exclusively to Pulse Live, Mbugua’s mother denied the allegations that they had abandoned their son.
Peris Wanjiku, the mother, told Word Is, her son was still going through counselling.
She said Kimani was suffering due to excessive use of marijuana. “I raised him in church but when he got to the age of knowing what to do, he decided to go astray and started abusing drugs. He has never even used caffeine since we raised him in SDA,” she said.
Wanjiku however said they were afraid he would run away from home once they pick him up from the hospital.
“The last time I went to pick him up, he was rude to me. He told me since I was late picking him up, there is a woman who was coming for him from the hospital and that I should go back home. If he agrees to come home, then we are going for him today,” she said.
The family also said they were trying to sort out some issues with NHIF since his card was inactive. The mother also said that she had not seen him for a week. And could be why he was complaining.