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Ailing old man inflates hospital bill to get extra cash 'for other needs'

An elderly man shocked his family after they discovered that he had inflated the hospital bill in a bid to extort from relatives. According to some relatives of the 78-year-old man who lives in Kawangware, the septuagenarian added some figures to his bill after being treated at a city hospital.

"We are shocked and totally perturbed by the behaviour of our father," said one of his daughters who resides in Ruiru, Kiambu County. The woman claimed she has been at the forefront of taking care of her widowed father.

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