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How trip to Middle East ended up in a house in Thika

Enock Lihanda with his wife Elizabeth Njeri leave Our Lady of Sorrow Homecare Training Center in Makongeni, Thika on June 14, 2021.[Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The last time Enock Lihanda, 45, visited Nairobi was three years ago for a job-related errand. But in an unexpected twist, he was forced to travel more than 300 kilometres to Nairobi on June 13 to stop his wife from leaving the country for greener pastures in a foreign land.

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