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Give up land or pay Sh1.7m for junk car, distressed owner told

The worthless scrap heap has been a 17-year-old nightmare for Mr Andrew Githinji, 80

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Give up land or pay Sh1.7m for junk car, distressed owner told
What you need to know:
The worthless scrap heap has been a 17-year-old nightmare for Mr Andrew Githinji, 80.
It has plunged him into a Sh1.7 million debt hole and his piece of land risks being auctioned off if he doesn’t pay up.
With the bill unsettled, the garage impounded the vehicle and started charging Sh250 daily for storage.

 

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Teen gives birth, says lack of contraceptives is to blame

Before she fell pregnant, she had made attempts to obtain contraceptives from public health facilities but was turned down.

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Teen gives birth, says lack of contraceptives is to blame
She reveals that she was allowed to sit the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam and scored 335 marks out of a possible 500.
Cecilia says that before she fell pregnant, she had made attempts to obtain contraceptives from local public health facilities but she was turned down.
According to recent data by the Ministry of Health, one in five adolescents aged 15 to 19 is a mother or is pregnant with her first child.

 

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The saddest stories I ever read are in this thread

man, "We used to live in Thika barracks during the Sierra Leone and Ethiopia/Eritrea peace keeping missions. Whenever that landrover visited a house of those deployed the next thing you would hear is loud screams of mothers & children wailing. Sad days those"