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Medicine student dropped out to join Makenzi as a prayer leader

Caroline Wanjiku, the mother of Stephen Ngugi, who was rescued from Shakahola forest. [Robert Menza, Standard]

It was like episodes of a bad dream, says Caroline Wanjiku about the events of the night before her son, rescued last week from Shakahola forest, walked out of the house in 2017.

On that eventful night, Wanjiku said she heard her son, Stephen Ngugi, then 21 years old, and his two friends shout in unison; "Amen! Amen! So be it!"

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