How my mum threw me into pit toilet when I was 7 months – Samuel Itiru narrates birth experience

Samuel Itiru is a man born and brought up in Murang’a County. By the time he came to know himself, he did not find his mother with him and hence he was forced to grow up like an orphan, although both were alive.

According to Samuel, when he was born, there erupted a domestic war among his father’s family members, who were fighting for land. The war went sour to a point where his father was then arrested and proved guilty, something that led to him being sentenced to Prison for 10 Years.

By the time the father was arrested, His Late Mother was then unemployed and had no any means or ability to raise him. According to him, she brought him up for seven months before her situation, allegedly, got worse and could not bring up a kid. Her thoughts settled at throwing samuel into a pit Latrine at the age of Seven months.

After this act, his mother fled to her native home. However, before leaving, a neighbour, who used to provide milk to the home , by good luck, visited Samuel’s home to borrow some pasture for her cows. After being allowed, she decided to visit the latrines for a call of nature and this is where Samuel’s life was saved.

Upon reaching there, the neighbour saw a piece of clothes hanging in the pit and decided to know more. She then heard some noice, which triggered her attention that there was a child in the toilet. This is how she called for help and Samuel was rescued.

In the meantime, his mother had disappeared to a place where the family never knew. But it came to their realisation that she was at her home.

At class six, his father completed his jail term and was released. It it at this time when his father decided to look for his wife. They found her but she was unfortunately married to another man, had additional five children and had divorced. He did not consider this as a negative impact, but still continued loving her and the moved in again.

Despite knowing that Samuel had survived, her mum did not love him in any way. But he appreciates that his father loved them too dearly.

Things turned wrong when Samuel’s mother sold her father-in-law’s land, which they had been given to stay after Samuel’s father was released from prison. She fled with all the money to a place where Samuel Never Knew. After father knew this, he also ran away leaving samuel alone, for the second time.

In the meantime, his grandfather, the father to his dad, was a member of an “evil” secret cult that could do anything to get something, even if it meant killing someone. He was looking for Samuel’s mother, so that she could pay him the money she had sold the land.

Without forgetting the reality that Samuel knew nothing about his parents whereabout, as he had been reduced to street boy, his grandfather found him at a given time, tortured him and even left him almost dead, put him in a polythene paper and dumped him in a dumpster in Kibera Slums of Nairobi, after torturing him in Thika, I guess you imagine the distance. He was saved by a luhya woman who found him walking naked but injured. He could later be taken to various hospitals in critical conditions, which he doctors said that he would die if nothing was done. Although he tried several times to commit subside, none succeeded.

It is after a long time of living alone, Samuel decided to go back home and start a new life. At home, he realised that his grandfather had found his mother, Killed her and she had already been burried. According to what people.told him, she was Burried in parts, chopped like carnag

Before her mother died, His grandfather had found his father and set him up to a crime that led to his life imprisonment, after he used his cults to stage manage his Deat

At the moment, Samuel is free, his mother in dead and father is serving a life imprisonmenth.e.d.d.e.y.n.e.. d.s.. .erving a life imprisonment.