The mother of former Citizen TV journalist Kimani Mbugua, Peris Wanjiku, has come out in response to their son’s cries for them to pick him up from Mathare Hospital.
Wanjiku stated that her kid was still attending counseling sessions with the hospital in an interview with Mpasho’s author, Elizabeth Ngigi.
She claimed that Kimani was harmed by his excessive marijuana use.
“I raised him in church but when he got to the age of knowing what to do, he decided to go astray and started abusing drugs. He has never even used caffeine since we raised him in SDA,” she painfully narrated.
Wanjiku continued by saying that her father had brought her sole child to Mathare Hospital in August, but that after receiving treatment, he was OK.
She did, however, express concern that her kid would flee their house when they picked him up from the hospital.
“The last time I went to pick him, he was rude to me. He told me since I am late to pick him, there is a lady who is coming for him from the hospital and that I should go back home. If he agrees to come home, then we are going for him today.”
The family added that because his card was inactive, they were attempting to resolve some concerns with NHIF.
They denied accusations that they had abandoned the son.
“When he tries smoking weed, he goes psycho. We have not neglected him and we feel so bad about his condition. It’s like he is doing that to hurt us. We have forgiven him and we have no problem with him,” she said.
The former Citizen TV anchor claims that his parents left him in a psychiatric hospital and never came back. The former Citizen TV anchor claims that his parents left him in a psychiatric hospital and never came back.
Earlier this morning, Kimani begged his followers on Twitter to get in touch with his parents, who had sent him to the Mathare hospital as punishment for his psychotic episode.
“I appeal to all people who know me to kindly appeal to my parents to let me out of Mathare Hospital. I came here after a brief psychotic episode on the 4th of August and was discharged on the 10th of the same month. My parents have left me here to punish me,” Kimani tweeted.
Kimani discussed his battles with drug addiction in 2021.
“Your brain goes out of reality when you are doing drugs. After I smoked weed, I started seeing things out of reality, I developed schizophrenia.
The first diagnosis I received was an acute psychotic episode, to show that something huge had happened to me.”
This is not the first time he has been admitted at the mental health facility.
