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Kenya has gone mad

Our country has gone mad. We actually put a man on trial for the high crime of desiring to see his child go home after treatment. What happened to the Linda Mama programme which guaranteed free medicare for children under five? Yet even if the treatment was not free, how inhuman are we as to detain a child in a hospital for debt? Is that not slavery and kidnapping? Aren’t we barbaric when we hold people against their will, so that we can recover money?

Hypocrisy

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