- In 2021, Kimani shared his struggles with drug addiction.
- His mother said Kimani is suffering due to excessive use of marijuana.
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Former Citizen TV journalist Kimani Mbugua's mother has explained why he is still at Mathari Hospital.
Peris Wanjiku, the mother, told Word Is, her son was still going through counselling.
She said Kimani is suffering due to excessive use of marijuana.
"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 said.
Wanjiku said her only son was taken to Mathari Hospital by his father in August and after taking medication he was okay.
Kimani posted a tweet on Wednesday morning asking his parents to get him out of the hospital.
"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," he tweeted.
Wanjiku said they are afraid he will run away from home once they pick him up from the hospital.
"The last time I went to pick him up, he was rude to me. He told me since I was late picking him up, there is a woman who was 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," she said.
The family also said they were trying to sort out some issues with NHIF since his card was inactive.
They rubbished claims that they had neglected him.
"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," Wanjiku said.
Describing his early days, Wanjiku said Kimani was a good kid.
"He was a Nazarite of God," she said.
In 2021, Kimani shared his struggles with drug addiction.
"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," he said.
"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 to the mental health facility.