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Ngirichi gifts Kirinyaga homeless man with new house

Kirinyaga Woman Rep Wangui Ngirichi with James Mwendia inside a house she built for him. [Munene Kamau, Standard]

A 22-year-old man has ditched street life after being gifted a house by Kirinyaga Woman Rep Wangui Ngirichi.  The three-roomed house couldn’t have come at a better time for James Mwendia who suffers from cerebral palsy.

Mwendia who uses his toes to chat on the mobile phone with Ngirichi through the help of someone to hold the gadget was smartly dressed in a new suit when he was being handed over the three-roomed stone house.

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