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Jailed for life at Kamiti because of nyama bite, he is now blind

David Kamau Thutho

The visually impaired man serving a life sentence regrets one thing: accepting a meal in a barmaid’s house which ended up being akin to ‘kissing a live naked electric wire.’So says the man who was transferred to Kamiti from Nakuru Maximum Prison in 2013.

David Kamau Thutho was not blind. He claims to have been a village tycoon, but life at Kamiti Maximum Prison in Nairobi is a different ball game. He struggles to survive. He can’t see.

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