Thread by @MutemiWaKiama

A thread By Wachira Waihere (ex nyayo torture chambers Political Prisoner)

About our colleague Njonjo Mue...

I have watched the sermon that he delivered to the congregation at Karura Church in 2019 and I am having second thoughts.

Watch and listen...

We should go beyond seeing his nakedness in the now-viral video but try to decipher the message that he was trying to send across.

Njonjo is saying that mental illness is a serious, growing and neglected social, medical and psychiatric problem that afflicts almost 1/4 of our population who suffer from either bipolar, manic depression, schizophrenia or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...

...and which our government allocates a paltry 1% of its budget to deal with.

He is saying that there are less than 100 psychiatrists serving a population of more than 50 million.

The video though disturbing should shame our leaders especially those in government, parliament and heading medical institutions and hopefully provoke them to act.

So let's not bury our heads in shame in the face of a real problem that will persist in our siblings, children, relatives and friends.

Njonjo's action is a wake-up call just as it happened in 1992 when our mothers whose sons were languishing in prison undressed in broad daylight to ward off the attack by Moi police who wanted to disrupt their peaceful vigil calling for the release of their sons and it worked.

Thanks @wawaheire for this...