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Come back home son, distraught mum pleads

A portrait of 39 years old Edward Maina who left to Tanzania the year 2015 and since then nobody has his whereabouts. He left six children at their rural home. BY CHRISPEN SECHERE.

In July last year, Edward Omani Maina, 39, left his home in Eshambula village, Kakamega County for greener pastures in Tanzania. He was in the company of an in-law.

He stayed there for one month and went back to the village but after a week, he received a call that the wife of his in-law was sick and left immediately. In September 2015, Omani called his mother saying he was sick and in hospital.

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