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Leah Ngugi: From rejection to being a popular gospel singer and a counselor for the hopeless

Leah Mercy Ngugi

NAIROBI: Gospel singer Leah Mercy Ngugi has crawled through hell but came out smelling like a rose flower. When her radiant face and heart join to belt out gospel songs, her earlier life of struggle is forgotten and the joy of new found peace takes charge.

Leah was rejected by her biological mother and found herself, at age 12, living with a vicious thug in a cave. The thug had ‘adopted’ her as his daughter.

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