Revealed: How abortion has crept into Kenyan ghettos and universities

“I could hear the conductor shout ‘Mombasa Road hamsini’ from downstairs as I lay on the delivery couch    Photo: Courtesy

“Watu nguyas, hii si mara ya kwanza unapata wa-junior wametupwa kwa taka. Hii ni mortuary yao buda, kuweni wapole (People, this is not the first time one finds children (foetuses) disposed in the garbage. This is their mortuary, be easy),” an unmoved street urchin tells the shell-shocked residents of Nyayo Highrise where a mauled foetus was discovered recently.

He added that one would be sure to find at least two disposed foetus on trash day, Thursday. Most of the trash is disposed from the Kibera slums that connects to what were to be the slum upgrading project, Highrise, via a small gate. This scene is just but the end product of a ghetto procured abortion.