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Misled by a Facebook friend

 

He sold his trees and a cow, fetched Sh40,000 and embarked on a journey to Nairobi to meet a blind date he met on Facebook. Two years later, he has not returned home.

Dickson Kipkoech Mutai, locally known as Chepkumiat, then 18, left his parents’ home in Kapcheptoror village in Kericho County unnoticed and without informing anyone of his destination, leaving his parents in agony.

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