Do you know this lost child picked up in Kiambu?
Nuhu Ng'ang'a from Kiambu County undergoing treatment at Gertrude Children hospital on October 23, 2014. He was rescued by Kiambu police officers in 2013. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- He was picked up as a lost child in May 2013 by Kiambu Police who took him to the Kiambu Children Remand Home.
- Once discharged, Ng’ang’a will stay at the Nest for three months as efforts are made to find his parents.
In slurred speech, he says he is called Nuhu Ng’ang’a from Kiambu.
The boy, suspected to be 12 years old, has been at the Gertrude's Children Hospital’s ICU in Nairobi for a week and a half.
His guardian, the Nest Children’s Home, hopes that his parents will identify him.
The home’s director, Ms Irene Baumgartner, said: “He cannot speak properly.”
Records at the Children's Department, case P/C 15/2014, show he was picked up as a lost child in May 2013 by Kiambu Police, who took him to the Kiambu Children Remand Home.
The boy was sickly and was treated at Kiambu District Hospital. On October 9, the chief magistrate’s court committed the boy to the Nest Children’s Home for specialised treatment since he was malnourished and had contracted tuberculosis.
A social worker in Kiambu, Ms Lucy Nduta, said the boy only asks for food using signals. Once discharged, Ng’ang’a is expected to stay at Nest for three months as efforts are made to find his parents.
