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13 years have gone by since he left home protesting parents’ decision to postpone circumcision

Kiplagat Kong’a (middle) in a photo he sent to the family eleven years ago. [PHOTOS: ROBERT KIPLAGAT/STANDARD]

By ROBERT KIPLAGAT

BARINGO COUNTY: To a boy whose time to become a man has come, patience is a luxury he cannot afford.  This is the bitter truth that parents of Kiplagat Kong’a of Tunguruwo village in Sacho, Baringo County learnt after they tried to postpone their son’s destiny.

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